Synonym: inhibitory, repressing. Similar words: repression, irrepressible, oppressive, impressive, expressive, repress, repressed, aggressiveness. Meaning: [rɪ'presɪv] 
adj. restrictive of action.
adj. restrictive of action. 
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1. The people are held down by a repressive regime.
2. Parliament condemned the repressive measures taken by the police.
3. The military regime in power was unpopular and repressive.
4. This repressive law takes gay rights back to the dark ages.
5. The government's repressive policies are sowing the seeds of rebellion.
6. He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.
7. The customs were exceedingly repressive toward women.
8. This fuelled dissatisfaction with the repressive structures of tsarism.
9. When faced with locally repressive measures, some Huaraz women have threatened to call a marketers' strike.
10. He became increasingly more repressive, despite his pronouncements about creating a new society, free of corruption and graft.
11. Labour implemented a more repressive policy on the ground than Likud while pretending to greater moderation in the international domain.
12. He immediately began harsh repressive measures and many Madeirans were deported to the Azores and some to the Cape Verde.
13. Perhaps even more startling, given the recent repressive climate, Zverev himself could also be seen working intuitively in public.
14. However, when a country reverts to more repressive politics, government policies usually demobilize many of the new foot soldiers.
15. A military coup was carried out, and a repressive government was placed in power.
16. The country has repressive laws and jails full of political prisoners.
17. He loathed the repressive State and the system which it supported.
18. The people are held down by a vicious and repressive military regime.
19. Both the Sandinistas and Frelimo came to power after a liberation struggle against highly repressive regimes.
20. A second section then analyses the corresponding drift towards a more repressive style of policing in this country.
21. After six years in power, Park was becoming more repressive and had his sights set on long-term rule.
22. The medical students, in entering a traditionally conservative profession, were obliged to subscribe to conventionally repressive attitudes.
23. Perdita thought, to take an example at random, that things like table manners were a stupid and repressive idea.
24. This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority.
25. The growing numbers of the poor were reflected in begging, vagrancy and theft, all of which led to repressive reactions.
26. However, many ordinary men and women came to find this undiluted predestinarian Calvinism uncongenial and repressive.
27. In future, all movie gays will be law-abiding citizens with healthy relationships, no repressive hang-ups, and a glitter-free wardrobe.Sentencedict.com
28. The guaranteed absence of external intervention left the regime a free hand to continue its repressive domestic policies.
29. Its rejection led to a series of industrial strikes, demonstrations, and repressive measures by the Government.
30. From their historical perspective Marx and Engels could be forgiven for arguing that late-nineteenth-century Britain had a repressive capitalist state.
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