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What does repressively mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a repressive manner.
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We have made the human right to reproduce unchallengeable: to do so is either to be eugenicist or – as with China's one-child policy – repressively authoritarian.
Next to economic relationships of dependence, ways of life and norms considered as hegemonic can also act repressively against those people who do not want to follow these ideas.
Unlike most Americans, having lived in the Soviet Union, I have some experiences of a society where a national ID system was used relatively repressively.
You've written that we're willing to trade with them but we don't draw a line when they obviate civil liberties, when they continue to act repressively.
At the ballet's close they follow Eva, her charisma intact, as she is banished from this unforgiving, repressively puritanical sect.
Apparent devolution while real power is retained at the centre and used repressively may even increase the disharmony of Ethiopia's nationalities.

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