Sentence examples for been oppressive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Burdensome or difficult to bear.
- The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
Passing sentence, the judge said he did not believe that Fulcher had been oppressive in how he interviewed Halliwell.
This may have been because her own experience of family life, growing up in the Boston suburb of Swampscott, had been oppressive.
But the Chinese Communist Party in the reform era has been oppressive politically — even worse lately, with the harshest clampdown in two decades — while hugely enriching its people.
The satirical intent is lightly handled; anything more explicit would have been oppressive, and this kind of comment is not the point anyway.
It is true, some nuns have been oppressive and narrow-minded; but there is also a case for including religious sisters in the canon of feminism, certainly when it comes to the education of girls.
But Gutmann also cites examples — ranging from the Boy Scouts to a Pueblo woman punished by her tribe for marrying outside it — in which these groups have been oppressive to their own members and discriminatory toward outsiders.
The oppressed learn from their oppressors; Brutus's language can be oppressive, too.
The approach is oppressive.
Sometimes this was oppressive.
The overall effect was oppressive.
