oppressor
a person or group that exercises authority or power over another in a harsh and burdensome way:Meanwhile the oppressors, blind to the brutal and unjust practices sustaining their dominance, simply increase the level of force against any who resist.
Origin of oppressor
1Other words from oppressor
- pre·op·pres·sor, noun
- self-op·pres·sor, noun
Words Nearby oppressor
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How to use oppressor in a sentence
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu, Anti-Apartheid Campaigner Who Tried to Heal the World, Dies at 90 | Aryn Baker | December 26, 2021 | TimeAnyone who felt the boot of the oppressor realized that he was going in the face of that.
The many, many people who think racism is over or overblown, or that its dominant historic forms have been overturned and the oppressors have become the oppressed, will not pick up her book.
A Western hero, Indiana Jones, came to their rescue to teach their oppressors a text-based lesson.
How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures | Ars Staff | October 23, 2020 | Ars TechnicaQuestion those taking on the mantle of victimhood and you are immediately cast as some kind of aggressive, unfeeling oppressor.
What the U-VA Rape Case Tells Us About a Victim Culture Gone Mad | Lizzie Crocker | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In order to be elusive and to have longevity, the oppressor has learned to kill MEN while their bodies remain alive.
Deep Thoughts from War Machine's Sexist, Racist Prison Blog | Melissa Leon | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo many of you ARE MEN but you got trapped by the oppressor.
Deep Thoughts from War Machine's Sexist, Racist Prison Blog | Melissa Leon | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.
Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | Alex Haley | January 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen you have a cause, the best way to express yourself is artistically,” he says, against “the scissor of the oppressor.
Hani Abbas Extends the Vital Tradition of Political Cartooning in the Mideast | Patrick Hilsman | October 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the latter case the prince-bishop was the obnoxious oppressor.
German Culture Past and Present | Ernest Belfort BaxThe impossibility of escaping from the hand of the oppressor.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward GibbonThese alone were ready to step between the oppressor and the oppressed.
A Plea for Captain John Brown | Henry David ThoreauHe was obliged to bow to fortune, and to swear allegiance once more to what he considered the oppressor.
The Mysteries of Montreal | Charlotte FuhrerForty years will have expired this spring since the Christian peasants of Bulgaria rose in arms against the Turkish oppressor.
Raemaekers' Cartoons | Louis Raemaekers
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