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repressed

[ri-prest] / rɪˈprɛst /








ADJECTIVE
smothered
Synonyms




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Culture writer Sarah Carson called the morning travel drink the moment many repressed Brits “are finally free to escape.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

“It was more that something must have just drifted into my head thinking, ‘You take two men repressed in their current life, repressed in the modern world.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

But when Jamie Bell was cast as Niall, the gentler, more repressed character of the duo, he persuaded Gadd to take the role.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

He is raised to be idle, insular and emotionally repressed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

When she walked, her long rosary clicked with a most repressed, arrhythmic music.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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