Crossword-Solution: REPRESSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Repressive | a. | Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “REPRESSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Tending to keep down | 1 answer |
| Holding in check | 2 answers |
| stifling | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REPRESSIVE (5)
The problem arises only when the people of one race are minded to adopt and act upon some policy more or less oppressive or repressive in dealing with the people of another race.
They have seen too much hard, repressive toil to admit of the development of lily beauty either in form or color.
The Capitularies are full of repressive provisions; but the incessant reiteration of these threats only shows the perseverance of the evil and the impotency of the government.
When he finds that your legislative action exerts upon him a repressive and restraining force he will curse you as its author, because he sees not the springs you are working.
The general leniency of the judicial procedure here, and the utter absence of all repressive measures, are a scandal to Europe.
Quotes with REPRESSIVE (3)
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of …
Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my fiction I think this search sometimes turns out to be a cruel delusion. No optimism, no pessimism. No homesickness for lost values or for the way fiction used to be written. Everybody seems to know everything. Subjects surface and are totally exhausted in a matter of days or weeks, totally played out by the publishing industry and t…
First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).