Word Finder - oppressive

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Burdensome or difficult to bear.

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The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.

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Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.

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The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.

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Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming

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Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?

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Hot and humid of the weather.

The heat of summer is most oppressive.

The tithe was an oppressive form of taxation, as were the various fees pp ?

Over all is the sagging roof of an oppressive yet inherently weak government.

Even in the desert the heat had not been so oppressive... and one day it had reached over a hundred.

Oppressive taxation and unblushing nepotism were Clement's great faults.

He was defeated by a combination of the Kossuthists, Andrássy Liberals and Clerical People's party, the 30 Croatian deputies, whose vote might have turned the election, abstaining on Dr Wekerle promising them to deliver Croatia from the oppressive rule of the ban, Baron Rauch.

The nation, however much it might murmur, would never have been willing to rebel against a sovereign whose only fault was that he occasionally pressed his prerogative too far, Edwards rule was seldom or never oppressive, the seizure of the merchants wool in 1297 was the only one of his acts which caused really fierce and widespread indignation.

I found this to be entirely too oppressive for my tastes.

As the heat is thus made less oppressive along the coast, the beaches of New Jersey have rapidly built up with towns and cities that have become popular summer resorts - among the best known of these are Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, Atlantic City (also a winter resort) and Cape May.

In attempting to pass from Wei to another state, Confucius was set upon by a mob, which mistook him for an officer who had made himself hated by his oppressive deeds.

The "Bread and Cheese War," an uprising of the peasants in North Holland caused by famine, is a proof of the misery caused by civil discords and oppressive taxation.

In its fiscal policy, in its religious intolerance, and in its cruel and contemptuous treatment of the natives, Portuguese rule had been alike oppressive.

The hot westerly winds of summer make the air oppressive, though violent thunderstorms, in which form the northern districts receive most of their scanty rainfall, occasionally clear the atmosphere.

The island of Santo Domingo was one of several in the West Indies which had early in the 16th century been almost depopulated by the oppressive colonial policy of Spain.

If these conditions are complied with, it is probable that the total rate of supply will not exceed, even if it reaches, the rate necessary in any system, not being an oppressive and insanitary system, by which the water is paid for according to the quantity used.

The defiant, polluted and oppressive city is condemned for failing to regard the warnings.

His rule was expensive, and he made himself hated by every class of his subjects, baronage, clergy and people alike, by his ingenious and oppressive taxation.

James' attempt to obtain further supplies from the Commons by opening a bargain for the surrender of some of his old feudal prerogatives, such as wardship and marriage, which had no longer any real meaning except as a means of obtaining money in an oppressive way, broke down, and early in 1611 he dissolved his first parliament in anger.

In France, it was begun in order to sweep away an aristocracy in church and state which had become barbarously oppressive.

If money could be spared, moreover, for the remission of taxation, the paper duties were much less oppressive than those on some other articles.

But the abstainers condemned the bill as inadequate; the publicans denounced it as oppressive; and the whole strength of the licensed victuallers was thenceforward arrayed against the ministry.

The speech was a humiliating but not an oppressive failure.

In the meantime the provinces of the Netherlands had revolted against the arbitrary and oppressive Spanish rule, and Don John of Austria, who had been sent as governorgeneral to restore order, had found himself helpless in face of the superior talent and personal influence of the prince of Orange, who had succeeded in uniting all the provinces in common resistance to the civil and religious tyranny of Philip. In the autumn of 1577 Farnese was sent to join Don John at the head of reinforcements, and it was mainly his prompt decision at a critical moment that won the battle of Gemblours (1578).

The wildest stories were circulated in the press about the oppressive character of the Venizelist regime of 1917-20.

The tithe war followed, and this most oppressive of all taxes was unfortunately commuted (1838) only in deference to clamour and violence.

Slavery had a patriarchal and family character, and was seldom exercised in a cruel or oppressive way.

In the Hesiodic fable, Cronus separates the heavenly pair by mutilating his oppressive father Uranus.

The Flemings, however, soon wearying of the oppressive administration of the French governor, Jacques de Chtillon, and the recrudescence of patrician domination, rose and overwhelmed the French chivalry at Courtrai (1302) a prelude to the coming disasters of the Hundred Years War.

This would be preeminently the case with the smaller landowners who formed the curiales, and who were in reality serfs of the fisc, for on them fell the main weight of taxation, and they were confined to their position by oppressive laws.

He had liberated the Sudanese from the extortions of the Egyptians, but the people soon found that the Mandi's rule was even more oppressive than had been that of their former masters, and after the Mandi's death the situation of the peasantry in particular grew rapidly worse, neither life nor property being safe.

The courts of justice became corrupt, administrative power was abused and degenerated into a despotism controlled only by personal considerations, oppressive taxes destroyed industry and gradually desolated the country.

It will serve only to incite more contempt for the law among drivers who are already plagued with oppressive regulations.

And it proved just as fallible, just as corrupt and just as oppressive as anything that had gone before it.

You've spent the last four hours among the awful oppressive space filth.

Labor's promises, from banning fox hunting to not arming oppressive regimes, have proved to be lies.

The rebel regime in Rhodesia is not only defying the Crown and imposing an increasingly oppressive dictatorship.

Either way, the game has an intense and almost oppressive atmosphere.

So there's a lot of people within both these families trying to escape the quite oppressive family ethos that they're living under.

Putting is no so oppressive; last child was born on Saturday morning and I was at work the Friday night.

Britain has a history of being a tolerant country where persecuted people have fled from often oppressive regimes.

But he was soon to find the lifestyle oppressive, despite the creature comforts.

But my mind was in a turmoil, and the nights became more oppressive than ever.

This was a small room around nine by twelve feet and seemed oppressive.

Tuesday 7th February 2006 A deadline could feel oppressive.

I don't see it as a bad thing that people want to get away from a place that they find oppressive.

This first section of the cave appears very oppressive to some.

In much of the world states remain oppressive, secretive and violent.

They will abandon all pretense of benign assistance in favor of a more oppressive approach.

The New York proceedings were not vexatious or oppressive.

So how does the humanist mother go about producing reasonably well-balanced, well-educated, moral human beings, protected from irrelevant and oppressive myths?