Definition of "oppressively" []

• In an oppressive manner. (adverb)

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• "Middle schoolers no longer showered after PE class, a development that Ben blamed for the advent of the oppressively pungent deodorant sprays with oxy-moronic names like Arctic Heat and Blazing Chill that had become required spritzing for teenage boys."
• "Rose, a dental receptionist who has been side-stepping the advances of dubious men ever since she arrived in London at 16, a refugee from an oppressively unhappy childhood, is now on the move again."
• "Nobody feels it more oppressively and relentlessly than the men who have been cast out of all those industries they called their own."