oppression
noun
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brutality, dictatorship, maltreatment, cruelty, despotism, domination, abuse, suffering, injustice, persecution, coercion, control, compulsion, force, severity, autocracy, fascism, harshness, calamity, tormentExamples from the Web for oppression
Contemporary Examples of oppression
Jundullah and Jaish ul Adl sprang up “in reaction to that kind of oppression,” he said.
If anything, every new religion emerged at least in part as a protest against violence and oppression.
But for many Muslim women, religion is seen as a source of liberation rather than a source of oppression.
Dovlatov was a merciless opponent of oppression, whose chief weapon was one dictatorships are rarely good at facing: humor.
Dovlatov hated Soviet oppression and battled repression subtly, by not condescending to notice it, and keeping things light.
Historical Examples of oppression
His self-mastery is the gift of his creator, and oppression, only, can take it away.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
The demon of oppression had hidden her head ashamed, and fled to her den!
Ranald Bannerman's BoyhoodGeorge MacDonald
Some sense of oppression, of impending evil, hung over them both.
The Film of FearArnold Fredericks
The world was full of oppression, and envy, and drunkenness, and vain pleasures.
The Shadow of a CrimeHall Caine
The fact that Godolphin was slain, it must be confessed, was not in itself the source of his oppression.
The Sea-HawkRaphael Sabatini