Oppressively is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OPPRESSIVELY in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• OPPRESSIVE, unreasonably burdensome or severe
• in a heavy and oppressive way
ADJECTIVE:
• weighing heavily on the mind or spirits
• inflicting harsh and authoritarian treatment
• (of weather) close and sultry

Words related to OPPRESSIVELY

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How to use OPPRESSIVELY in a sentence

• The days were oppressively hot and the nights bitterly cold.
• He oppressively drilled his soldiers, without knowledge of tactics and still less of strategy.
• It was an oppressively warm day, and we had a ride of many miles before us, ere we could hope to reach the point where we expected to intercept the savages.
• The silence and the gloom and the oppressively scented air seemed to rouse his caution.
• Here the evenings in summer are not so oppressively hot as in the town below, and dense as the shade is, the air is dry and elastic.
• There are, unhappily, but too many instances of free nations that have behaved oppressively.
• He was glad, as the weather was now oppressively warm, and he greatly preferred to sleep on a blanket in the open air.
• The reason why this power becomes so very formidable, and is often so oppressively tyrannical in its exhibition, is very obvious.
• Although the night was oppressively hot, these were only opened some four inches at top and bottom.
• The weather would have been oppressively sultry but for the gentle breeze which constantly drifted landward with coolness in its wings.
• There were no mosquitoes, the weather was not oppressively hot, and we slept well.
• It would be wrong to say that he felt in any degree embarrassed on looking into the face of one whom he had so oppressively injured.
• The air was oppressively hot, and the sea lay like lead.
• On an oppressively hot June morning, when I finally got away, the alcalde rode along with me for a couple of miles.
• The weather was oppressively hot, and having lain down on her bed, I fell fast asleep.
• The trees were in their freshest beauty, and the air had become warm without being oppressively hot.
• Even in the fiercest gales there is shelter here for the red-roofed fishing village that surrounds the harbour, while on a warm afternoon the air is almost oppressively hot.
• The town is mean in appearance, and has a very unhealthy climate, oppressively hot and humid.
• The weather was oppressively hot, nor do I remember to have suffered more from the sun than during this little journey.
• The river was yellow with mud, and the air oppressively hot and heavy.
• The little cabin had been almost oppressively warm, and they had completely got over their chill when they left it, closing the door behind them.
• The cafes, so tumultuous and excited at the opening of the Revolution, are oppressively silent now.
• The room was oppressively quiet, walled in by the thick sod from the storm.
• Neither his visits nor his lessons had been oppressively frequent, while the kindnesses which he had showered upon them, from a distance, had been unceasing.
• On the Bogan the wind was oppressively hot during the night, and lulled only towards morning.
• That black and appalling cloud, which four years ago hung oppressively over the country, had poured forth its fury and was now passing away.
• So great is the elevation of those regions that, although the days might be oppressively warm, the nights were cold and white frosts were frequent.
• It is a tax which would be so generally diffused among the people that it would be felt oppressively by none and be complained of by none.
• Patriotism languished in dot-like States oppressively administered, without associations to awaken pride, or generous interests to evoke devotion.
• It was oppressively warm, and man and beast were utterly fatigued.
• Heavy clouds hid both moon and stars, and the air was oppressively hot.
• It was an oppressively hot August morning, and no breath of wind stirred the forest.
• The doctor was in excellent spirits, and almost oppressively hospitable.
• They were opposed to compulsory treatment of recalcitrant patients, arguing that any law of the kind would be used most oppressively against women.

Similar words containing OPPRESSIVE without suffix ly

oppressive17 unoppressive19 oppressiveness21 oppressivenesse22 oppressivenesses23

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