Oppressive

Examples

• The affected anxiety of the lawgiver, lest they should employ an improper person, is evidently as impertinent as it is oppressive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But it is all blank, blank as the darkness above and below, while he goes up the great staircase again, blank as the oppressive silence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• IV The heat had been painfully oppressive all day, and it was now a close and sultry night. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am afraid you found the heat very oppressive to-night. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The atmosphere of the place was heavy and mouldy, being rendered additionally oppressive by the closing of the door which led into the church. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A man with a very odd manner indeed, and with a lurking look that was quite oppressive. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular and oppressive as the services. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No oppressive aristocracy has ever prevailed in the colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When she got there, she found Bessy lying on the settle, moved close to the fire, though the day was sultry and oppressive. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In a more advanced state, they might be really oppressive and insupportable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The second day was sultry and oppressive. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In order to prevent exportation, the whole inland commerce of wool is laid under very burdensome and oppressive restrictions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She stood so near to one, pressing herself near upon one, in a way that was most embarrassing and oppressive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That was before he came to me, but the recollection of it is oppressive to him even now. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The air is mild and delicious, and the heat no longer oppressive, as it was when you passed through the garden. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• When the air is near the saturation point, the weather is oppressive and is said to be very humid. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In this state of things, therefore, this company was, in every respect, a strict and oppressive monopoly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But though such companies may not, in the present times, be very oppressive, they are certainly altogether useless. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Its business is to provide opportunities, not to announce ultimate values; to remove oppressive evil and to invent new resources for enjoyment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the gay light of the drawing-room she was uncanny and oppressive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That tax would be cruel and oppressive, which aggravated their loss, by taking from them any part of his succession. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To my gasping senses she made the glimmering gloom, the narrow limitsthe oppressive heat of the dormitory, intolerable. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The evil of the day is sometimes oppressive--too oppressive--and I long to escape it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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