repressive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repressive
Adjective
  • As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple white text on a black screen.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, an underground crime lord and boxer in A Thousand Blows, a neo-Nazi play-acting at being a father in This Is England, a coolly unemotional dystopian leader in Bodies.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Passport’s fuel economy is unimpressive, but there’s plenty to like about Honda’s first foray off road.
    Mark Phelan, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Her concern over both the animals and the big picture, not to mention her frustration and anger over what legacies of long-grift greed have wrought, offers the tiniest beacon of feeling in a film preoccupied with teeing up some frankly unimpressive carnage.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Repressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repressive. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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