Similar words: oppressive, impressively, expressively, aggressively, oppression, apprehensively, excessively, obsessively. Meaning: [ə'presɪvlɪ] adv. in a heavy and oppressive way.
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1 The atmosphere at the school was oppressively puritanical.
2 He suffered from an oppressively dominant mother.
3 His speeches conveyed an oppressively apocalyptic vision.
4 It was pitch-black and still oppressively hot.
5 In places, the shadows seemed oppressively dark, sinister hiding-places where some demon or evil sprite might lurk.
6 It was oppressively hot in the office.
7 You're mistaken if you imagine it to be oppressively hot.
8 Architecturally it is oppressively dull. Each of the fifty-four towns are built according to an identical plan.
9 He's a Catholic convert,(www.Sentencedict.com) and rather oppressively more papist than the Pope.
10 Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family.
11 Most solutions to the problem of global warming are tediously, almost oppressively, quotidian.
12 Chilies both warm the body and induce a cooling sweat, so mapo dofu is a dish made-to-order for Chengdu's perennially humid climate, with its bone-chilling winters and oppressively muggy summers.
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