Crossword-Solution: OPPRESSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oppressive | a. | Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. |
| Oppressive | a. | Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. |
| Oppressive | a. | Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OPPRESSIVE (5)
The place, by the bye, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly-shed blood was in the air.
The night was warm and still, and a little oppressive; the sound of guns continued intermittently, and after midnight there seemed to be sheet lightning in the south.
Widespread racial prejudice, besides creating racial discrimination, resulted in oppressive legislation.
When the sound subsided, the silence through the house was deep, dreary, and oppressive, notwithstanding that the tongues of many of the guests had already been loosened by a surreptitious cup or two of wine or spirits.
Fueled by the oppressive heat and humidity, decades of racial conflict, several 'Jew Boy Nigger Lovers' were killed that summer in Alabama.
Quotes with OPPRESSIVE (3)
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes writing can work toward a reparation, making a sheltering space for the mind. Yet it feeds off ruptures, tears in what might otherwise seem a seamless, oppressive fabric.
While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels . . . that so many of them take place in cultures that are rigid, hierarchical, stratified, and in essence oppressive? What is so appealing about feudalism, that so many free citizens of an educated commonwealth like ours love reading about and picturing life under hereditary lords?, such as f…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1988–2000).