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  • 21oppressive act — index ground Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 22oppressive exaction — index blackmail, coercion, extortion Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 23oppressive taskmaster — index dictator Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 24oppressive — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, agonizing, airless, annoying, arbitrary, arduous, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, backbreaking, besetting, black, bleak, bossy,… …

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  • 25oppressive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. tyrannical, cruel, burdensome, onerous, grievous. See severity, badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Difficult to bear] Syn. burdensome, onerous, harsh, tyrannical; see autocratic 1 , difficult 1 ,… …

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  • 26oppressive — op pres·sive || É™ presɪv adj. depressing; of depression; of oppression …

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  • 27oppressive — adjective 1》 harsh and authoritarian. 2》 weighing heavily on the mind or spirits. 3》 (of weather) close and sultry. Derivatives oppressively adverb oppressiveness noun …

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  • 28oppressive — a. 1. Burdensome, severe. 2. Heavy, overwhelming, overpowering. 3. Tyrannical, cruel, severe, hard, rigorous, inhuman, grinding, galling. 4. Close, uncomfortable …

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  • 29oppressive — adj 1. burdensome, onerous, cumbersome; laborious, toilsome, arduous, operose, wearisome; grinding, wearing, exhausting, racking, trying; unbearable, unsufferable, unendurable, intolerable. 2. tyrannical, despotic, draconian, inquisitorial;… …

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  • 30oppressive — op·pres·sive …

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