Synonyms for oppressively

Grammar : Adv

Spell : uh-pres-iv

Phonetic Transcription : əˈprɛs ɪv

Définition of oppressively

Origin : 1640s, from Medieval Latin oppressivus, from oppress-, past participle stem of opprimere (see oppress). Related: Oppressively; oppressiveness.

adv severely

Example sentences :

They were on the lawn taking the cool of the evening after an oppressively hot day.
Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini

Nevertheless, with the place crowded the atmosphere was oppressively hot.
Extract from : « The White Lie » by William Le Queux

The room was oppressively quiet, walled in by the thick sod from the storm.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various

By this time it is nearly five o'clock, and as yet oppressively warm.
Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

Here, where the winter cold is so piercing, it is oppressively hot in summer.
Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin

Why has he made me so often oppressively feel his superiority?
Extract from : « The Home » by Fredrika Bremer

It was oppressively hot, and Peter had been riding all the previous night.
Extract from : « Peter and Jane » by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

She would be lifeless and oppressively good-mannered, he felt certain.
Extract from : « The Windy Hill » by Cornelia Meigs

He knew and felt most oppressively that everything almost was against him.
Extract from : « Amos Huntingdon » by T.P. Wilson

The dinner was beautifully cooked and served, and was not oppressively long.
Extract from : « Home Life in Germany » by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

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