repressed
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“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
Gadd explains he thought it was interesting to show the two repressed men living in Glasgow, a city that has gone through so much change.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
The critic James Wood decried Mr. Barnes as “a thoroughly English writer,” meaning that he is clever and pedantic and emotionally repressed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Sadi denied accusations that authorities had repressed the demonstrations sparked by Tchiroma's calls, insisting that "there was no disproportionate use of force by law enforcement".
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
I will not swear, reader, that there was not something of repressed sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in the feeling that accompanied it.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing repressed
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