Repressive and Trying

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Repressive adjective - Restrictive of action.

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Trying and repressive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trying" instead an adjective "Repressive".

Trying adjective - Difficult to endure.

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Repressive and trying are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Repressive" instead an adjective "Trying".

Nearby Words: try, tried

Nintendo's "Play It Loud" ad campaign made it look like buying SNES games was an excellent way of rebelling against those stuffy, repressive authority figures, as well as trying to make them look much edgier than they actually were in most cases.

Source: The Man Is Sticking It to the Man

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