Repressive

Synonyms for "repressive" (72 found)

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Translations

17 translations across 12 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • потиснически adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)
  • репресивен adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Catalan

1 entries
  • repressiu adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Finnish

3 entries
  • repressiivinen adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)
  • sortava adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)
  • sorto adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

French

1 entries
  • répressif adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Galician

1 entries
  • represivo adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

German

1 entries
  • repressiv adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Hindi

1 entries
  • दमनकारी adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • represif adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Italian

1 entries
  • repressivo adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Russian

1 entries
  • репресси́вный adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Spanish

1 entries
  • represivo adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Swedish

3 entries
  • hämmande adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)
  • repressiv adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)
  • undertryckande adj (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.

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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

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Every dictatorship needs a strong repressive intelligence service.

Source: tatoeba (5866454)

Many of the Kabyle have emigrated from Algeria, influenced by factors such as the Algerian Civil War and cultural repression by the repressive Algerian government.

Source: tatoeba (8145194)

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