Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an oppressive manner; with unreasonable severity.
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- adverb In an
oppressive manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a heavy and oppressive way
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Examples
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After she learned of her mother's death -- as Beth walked block after block in the oppressively hot Chicago night air -- she kept looking in ruts beside curbs, half expecting to see her glasses.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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"Dog Day Afternoon" told the true-life story of two social misfits who set in motion a chain of disastrous events when they tried to rob a New York City bank on an oppressively hot summer afternoon.
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Tired of your phone directory oppressively assuming that you're straight?
Bryan Safi: The Gay Yellow Pages (VIDEO) Bryan Safi 2011
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It was an oppressively hot day, and I was at the new Civil-Military Information & Coordination office, where Iraqis could make claims, receive or provide information, or just generally grumble about how bad conditions were.
The Race to Capture Saddam Steve Russell 2011
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Felix et errabunda XXXI the senior stylist at my regular salon who (for free) fixed some of the Astor Place BUTCHERY an air-conditioned ride home from Brooklyn late on an oppressively hot and muggy night
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Nobody feels it more oppressively and relentlessly than the men who have been cast out of all those industries they called their own.
Dr. Peggy Drexler: Strange Days for the Man of the House Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011
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Rose, a dental receptionist who has been side-stepping the advances of dubious men ever since she arrived in London at 16, a refugee from an oppressively unhappy childhood, is now on the move again.
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge – review 2011
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Middle schoolers no longer showered after PE class, a development that Ben blamed for the advent of the oppressively pungent deodorant sprays with oxy-moronic names like Arctic Heat and Blazing Chill that had become required spritzing for teenage boys.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Nobody feels it more oppressively and relentlessly than the men who have been cast out of all those industries they called their own.
Dr. Peggy Drexler: Strange Days for the Man of the House Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011
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Felix et errabunda XXXI the senior stylist at my regular salon who (for free) fixed some of the Astor Place BUTCHERY an air-conditioned ride home from Brooklyn late on an oppressively hot and muggy night
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