oppressive
adjective
burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical.
oppressiveness
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a word derived from
oppressive.
Example Sentences
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“Close” is about a lot of things — the joy of friendship, the heartache of separation and the oppressiveness of masculine stereotypes — but what it’s mostly about is the nature of its characters’ silence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
The temperature could in no way be blamed for any sensations of impending oppressiveness we might have felt.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2022
You can only be in southern Italy for so long before the subject comes up — the oppressiveness that hangs over everything like a low cloud cover that never burns off.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2018
But the family — mother, brother, sister, sister-in-law — quickly splinters into bitterness and infighting, an oppressiveness Dolan highlights with quick cuts between extreme close-ups.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2016
The kind of emotion which this examination, joined to the oppressiveness of the air, occasioned, was choking the baron.
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
