Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not oppressive.
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- adjective Not
oppressive .
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Examples
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"A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive."
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There is work to be done in whole, multicultural, intergenerational community as well, but that work cannot proceed without every individual having the ability to build an unoppressive community and to recognize oppression when it is present.
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Having left the temple, we go into several shady thickets, where we take a light repast; after which, each of us employs himself in some unoppressive labour.
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Having left the temple, we go into several shady thickets, where we take a light repast; after which, each of us employs himself in some unoppressive labour.
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Having left the temple, we go into several shady thickets, where we take a light repast; after which, each of us employs himself in some unoppressive labour.
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You would have had an unoppressive but a productive revenue.
Paras. 50-74 1909
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The conservatory was a feature of the Bramfell townhouse, and to Loder it came as something wonderful and unlooked-for -- with its clustering green branches, its slight, unoppressive scents, its temperately pleasant atmosphere.
The Masquerader Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893
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Bending his long leanness over her (she had never seen a man whose material presence was so insubstantial, so unoppressive) and walking almost sidewise, to give her a proper attention, he struck her as innocent, as incapable of guessing that she had had a certain observation of life.
A London Life and Other Tales Henry James 1879
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However, the anomaly was light and unoppressive -- the echoes of a public discussion of delicate questions seemed to linger so familiarly in the egotistical little room.
The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879
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Nor, even since that date, although the commercial phrase "interest" has been adopted in order to distinguish an open and unoppressive rate of usury from a surreptitious and tyrannical one, has the debate of lawfulness or unlawfulness ever turned seriously on that distinction.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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