Synonyms for repressive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ri-pres-iv

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈprɛs ɪv

Définition of repressive

Origin : early 15c., from Middle French repressif, from Latin repress-, past participle stem of reprimere (see repress). Related: Repressively.

adj restraining

Example sentences :

It is repressive of freedom, and the reason is that its doctrine is after all no more than negative.
Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies

The repressive system may check unruliness, but can never influence for good.
Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

But of government only as a directing and repressive power.'
Extract from : « Socialism As It Is » by William English Walling

What he wants to abolish is the repressive, not the productive state.
Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann

It is neither warm nor chill, neither moist nor dry; but it is repressive.
Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 » by Various

You hard-lined, thin-lipped, repressive, changeless woman with a wax mask on.
Extract from : « Mugby Junction » by Charles Dickens

You will find an English Parsonage exerts a repressive influence.
Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke

Mrs. Baldwins silence was not oppressive, or repressive either.
Extract from : « Christmas Roses and Other Stories » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

But he does not allow her to visit much, and is most repressive to her.
Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 1 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

But at these negative and repressive measures it will be impossible to stop.
Extract from : « The Vagrancy Problem. » by William Harbutt Dawson

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