Synonyms for repressive
rɪˈprɛs ɪvre·pres·sive

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1. inhibitory, repressive, repressingadjective

   restrictive of action

   "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline"

   Synonyms:
   inhibitory, repressing

   Antonyms:
   unrestrictive

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1. List of paraphrases for "repressive":

   oppressive, repression, punitive, suppression, suppressive, law-enforcement, oppression

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1. Harry S Truman:

   Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

2. Itamar Ben Gvir/Twitter Israels:

   They do this [issue a flag ban] to give police a free hand to do whatever it is they want, they know it’s not legal to do this type of stuff - but the point is to create enough repressive measures so people stay silent.

3. Danielle Atkinson:

   If we teach a generation of young people that, after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and all of the events of the 1860s, attempts to integrate free people failed and there were repressive laws enacted that weren't repealed for almost a century, then we're going to have different conversations, we're going to have historical context for why the country is the way it is, instead of thinking that the fact that Black people are at the bottom of every metric is indicative of our deficit or our inferiority.

4. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   YOU CANNOT REFORM A SYSTEM THAT WAS DESIGNED TO OSTRACIZE AND MARGINALIZE A CERTAIN CLASS OF PEOPLE i.e THE POOR. IT WAS A SYSTEM FATALLY FLAWED AND DESIGNED AS REPRESSIVE AB INITIO! IT IS SELECTIVELY GENOCIDAL, AND ITS LAWS MUST BE DISOBEYED.

5. Joaquin Humberto:

   The state was seen more as an enemy than an ally. It was seen as repressive, its only presence was the police who went in with guns.