oppressed
adjective
burdened with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subjected to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power.
unoppressed
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a word derived from
oppressed.
Example Sentences
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The family, too, look, at first glance, well-suited to the place,—homely, kindly, unoppressed, of honest pride and mutual love, not unworthy to look out upon the far-shining sea.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller
German beer is protected by law, and unoppressed by taxation.
From Greifenstein by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
She remained unoppressed by any fear of inconvenience or hardship.
From The Hillman by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
But on Saturday nights she would frequently sing a psalm, and it was always on a week-day that she read the Bible, that she might be unoppressed with a sense of doing her duty.
From The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The man of reflection finds amusement in domestic resources; and, in his own mind, if unoppressed.
From An History of Birmingham (1783) by William Hutton
