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Sentence count:105+5Posted:2017-06-14Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: depresseddepressed arearepressrepressiverepressionexpressedsuppressedoppressedMeaning: [rɪ'pres]  adj. characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions. 
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31, As if some one like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse, demure and repressed!
32, None the less, Springhall is unwilling to conclude that young people were repressed by adults.
33, Dada released an amazing fount of creativity that had been largely repressed by the ethics of previous centuries.
34, Amiss had an almost overwhelming desire to cadge a cigarette in order to demonstrate solidarity, but he repressed it.
35, It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model.
36, Ace repressed a shudder, while Howard looked on unaffected, having seen the stones when they first arrived at the university.
37, Fat women are defined as undesirable, asexual, maternal, sexually desperate, rampant or repressed.
38, This wish is merely repressed, not abolished, by the desire to please the parents by obeying their prohibition.
39, It could have defended the frontiers, repressed religious intolerance and done something to accelerate economic and intellectual progress.
40, Patriarchal religion is built on many millennia of repressed fear of the power of female bodily processes.
41, For years the inhabitants of these islands have been repressed by the colonizers.
42, The instincts are known to us as impulses, wishes or desires which seek direct satisfaction, unless they are totally repressed.
43, This was achieved by turning half away with a repressed sigh so that the onlooker observed the profile which photographed very pleasingly.
44, They came from Williams' dysfunctional family[sentencedict.com], his tortured psyche and his repressed homosexuality.
45, Repression is self-evidently a defensive procedure, designed to obliterate any trace of the repressed material and to safeguard against its return.
46, Arthur Penn's movie is a study of teenage trauma and repressed sexuality masquerading as a Western.
47, Perhaps we have moved on, become less hate-filled, less afraid of difference, less sexually repressed.
48, The actress plays a repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
49, For example, most abduction experiences, which often take place in childhood, are repressed and have to be recovered using hypnosis.
50, For much of the time there was continuous subcutaneous and repressed friction, broken by occasional and emotionally trying attempts at reconciliation.
51, The repressed is, says Freud, the prototype of the unconscious.
51, Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
52, Freudian teaching interprets this as heavily repressed feelings of hostility towards her family.
53, Different kinds of experiences are repressed as inappropriate to the self-image one is attempting to construct.
54, Laing is still preoccupied with the authentic self, the repressed human essence.
55, For pasty-faced, repressed Limeys who lived in a rain-soaked dime of a country, this wasn't a small question.
56, Our desires to eat have been repressed, and so they surface in extreme and perverse ways.
57, The drowned body that refuses to stay submerged can be taken as a metaphor for the repressed but irrepressible female.
58, Jekyll nurses a repressed longing for the maid and her tender ministrations, and she for him.
59, Individual feelings and complexities are repressed and there is a constant threat of mutiny among family members.
60, Government traders could have been mistaken for socially conscious East Coast WASPs, had they only been a bit more repressed.
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