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Oppressive

adjective

Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit. "Oppressive sorrows"

Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior. Synonyms: tyrannical, tyrannous. "Oppressive laws" , "A tyrannical parent" , "Tyrannous disregard of human rights"

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... Rachel's tomb, hurried to Jerusalem as fast as possible. I never was so glad to get home again before. I never have enjoyed rest as I have enjoyed it during these last few hours. The journey to the Dead Sea, the Jordan and Bethlehem was short, but it was an exhausting one. Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth. And ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... certain people, all the rest, even such as had no complaint against Athens, thought proper to side with the injured parties in a war against her. So, when the Lacedaemonians became masters and succeeded to your empire, on their attempting to encroach and make oppressive innovations a general war was declared against them, even by such as had no cause of complaint. But wherefore mention other people? We ourselves and the Lacedaemonians, although at the outset we could not allege ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

... off in great spirits to join the Wallaces at the riverside cottage which they had rented for the remainder of the summer. The heat in town was already growing oppressive, and it was delightful to think of being in the country again and running free over the dear green fields. Esmeralda had presented her with quite a trousseau of summer dresses, with a selection of hair-ribbons to match, at least an inch ...

— More about Pixie • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... fields were divided by fences, neatly enough made of wood, that declared its own origin, having in fact been part of the timbers and planks of a wreck. As the whole was whitewashed, it had a rustic, and in a climate where the sun is seldom oppressive, by no ...

— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper

... exercise over a branch of Moor's Charity School, and have obstructed the application of its fund according to the nature of the establishment and the design of the donors; and that their measures have been oppressive to your memorialist in ...

— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith

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