absolute, authoritarian, constraining, dictatorial, high-handed, in the way, interrupting, monocratic, overbearing, prohibitive, stifling, troublesome
Definitionadj. restrictive of action
Last update: July 6, 2015
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The repressive measures of the police were condemned by the public. [Please select]
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The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl. [Please select]
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His tone was deliberately repressive, and a little quiver of disappointment went through Avery. [Please select]
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He readily listened to the urgent pleas of the leaders of the separatist party against obeying the repressive mandaes of the Cortes. [Please select]
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Fox and Goteway--beaming, expansive, from the sense of a merciful action accomplished--she received him in a distinctly repressive manner. [Please select]
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The Turks adopted violent repressive measures, and embarked upon massacres of Bulgarians on an enormous scale. [Please select]
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The repressive measures of the government drive the disciples of the new philosophy to conspirative methods. [Please select]
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To achieve such an arrangement of life, government, with its unjust, arbitrary, repressive measures, must be done away with. [Please select]
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