List of synonyms from "repressed" to synonyms from "republican"
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Definition of the day : « repressive »
- adj restraining
- It is repressive of freedom, and the reason is that its doctrine is after all no more than negative.
- Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
- The repressive system may check unruliness, but can never influence for good.
- Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
- But of government only as a directing and repressive power.'
- Extract from : « Socialism As It Is » by William English Walling
- What he wants to abolish is the repressive, not the productive state.
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
- It is neither warm nor chill, neither moist nor dry; but it is repressive.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 » by Various
- You hard-lined, thin-lipped, repressive, changeless woman with a wax mask on.
- Extract from : « Mugby Junction » by Charles Dickens
- You will find an English Parsonage exerts a repressive influence.
- Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke
- Mrs. Baldwins silence was not oppressive, or repressive either.
- Extract from : « Christmas Roses and Other Stories » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
- But he does not allow her to visit much, and is most repressive to her.
- Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 1 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- But at these negative and repressive measures it will be impossible to stop.
- Extract from : « The Vagrancy Problem. » by William Harbutt Dawson