Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who supports or advocates suppression.
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Examples
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ACORN has long been targeted by voter suppressionist and other lobbyists like the “Employment Policy Institute”, “Laborfacts.com” aka Rick Berman.
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Particularly troubling about this trend is the easy acceptance of repeatedly discredited right-wing voter suppressionist frames on this issue by elected and public officials.
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Now, thanks to the Bushites and their suppressionist business bigotry, allowing the tail to truly wag the dog, France leads the world in subscribers to Internet TV and the United States is not even among the top ten (top 10).
Bush Bureaucrats, Bungle Big Bonus Internet Leads: French Blow Away Bushites! 2007
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In theory I always have been, and am to-day, a legal suppressionist; but the most vital remedy of all is to break up the demand for intoxicants, and to persuade people from wishing to buy and drink them.
Recollections of a Long Life Cuyler, Theodore L 1902
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