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  • adverb So as to oppress; with or by means of oppression; oppressively.

Etymologies

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oppressing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The first thing that hit me was the oppressingly heavy, stale air.

    Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000

  • The first thing that hit me was the oppressingly heavy, stale air.

    Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000

  • The first thing that hit me was the oppressingly heavy, stale air.

    Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000

  • The first thing that hit me was the oppressingly heavy, stale air.

    Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000

  • The merry echoes of the winter had not yet died away, when it became oppressingly apparent that proper methods had not been taken to meet the steady and persevering preparations of the North.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • Slowly but oppressingly, overwhelmingly, it dawned on her not only that in all probability a murder had been committed, but also that she -- more than likely, she alone in all the world -- knew who the murderer was, who it must have been -- the young man next door.

    The Apartment Next Door William Andrew Johnston

  • I saw him last at Mostar in distress, because the only good hotel was administered by an Israelite of whose religion he disapproved, and the weather, as it often is at Mostar, was so oppressingly hot that I suppose he had not energy enough to try to convert him ....

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • Derby seemed oppressingly large and noisy and dangerous; and Derby, she understood, was scarcely more than a village compared to

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • It is not to be compared, in cool weather, with still-hunting on the open hills; nevertheless, in the furious heat of the summer sun it has its advantages, for it is not often so oppressingly hot in the swamp as it is on the open prairie or in the dry thickets.

    IV. The Deer of the River Bottoms 1885

  • For many weeks the sky had been clear, brilliant, and blue; but on this night dark clouds were scudding in wild unrest across it, and the air was oppressingly close and sultry.

    The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1860

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