repressed
adjective
subjected to, affected by, or characteristic of psychological repression.
unrepressed
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a word derived from
repressed.
Example Sentences
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The musical, which features a score by Lucy Simon with unrepressed operatic aspirations, is ready to hit the road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
“Order shrimp and lobster towers/But it’s me that gets devoured,” she sings, patiently and desperately, as if buckling under unrepressed humidity.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
“I’m loud, and I’m vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody’s got to,” Martha says with unrepressed bitterness to her husband George.
From Economist ● Apr. 5, 2018
She clutched the kite — just a simple red one shaped like a teardrop — with unrepressed enthusiasm.
From Nature ● Mar. 12, 2014
She dropt her eyes; an unrepressed sigh broke from her heart; but secret consciousness hushed all enquiry into the truth of her conjecture.
From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
