Repressed

//ɹɪˈpɹɛst//

"Repressed" in a Sentence (12 examples)

You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

The speaker believes that overt expression of feeling for others helps people tap into their own repressed emotions.

You're sexually repressed.

He's sexually repressed.

She's sexually repressed.

Anti-social behavior is fertile ground for humor. In America, where sexual expression was for long repressed, sex jokes abound. When Clifford Geertz asked a young Balinese man the funniest thing he could think of, the answer was "A younger being rude to his older brother."

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

The colonial horde repressed, in blood, with unprecedented violence, a peaceful rally organized to prevent the gathering of the criminal Ali Benflis.

With the advent of Algeria’s independence in 1962, the Kabyle language was denied acknowledgement, repressed and banned.

Yanni vented his repressed frustration regarding the government.

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