1. repressive - Adjective
2. repressive - Adjective Satellite
Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace. Camille Paglia
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. Herbert Marcuse
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. Robert A. Heinlein
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. James Hillman
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. Theodor Adorno
His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon. Barack Obama