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Repressive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive

    "Human law is indeed repressive, but repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed"

Adjective
  1. 1
    restrictive of action wordnet

Etymology

From repress + -ive.

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