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repressive

 adjective
     
Related topics: Government
re‧pres‧sive
1PG a repressive government or law controls people in a cruel and severe way [= oppressive]:
a repressive regime
repressive measures
2 not allowing the expression of feelings or desires, especially sexual ones
—repressively adverb
—repressiveness noun [uncountable]
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