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  1. laden, oppressedadjective

    burdened psychologically or mentally

    "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"

    Synonyms:
    laden, loaded, ladened

    Antonyms:
    unburdened

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  1. down-trodden

    Submitted by rinat on September 22, 2019  

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  1. List of paraphrases for "oppressed":

    downtrodden, suppressed, repressed, underdog, persecuted

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#4886loaded
#8954laden
#17513suppressed
#24815oppressed
#27120underdog
#32062persecuted
#36585repressed
#79116downtrodden

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  1. Lord Acton:

    It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

  2. Tsai Ing-wen:

    Very unfortunately, although China had made progress in economic development in recent years, its human rights and freedom were still greatly oppressed, we also care a lot about the development of democracy and human rights in mainland China, and hope China could walk toward that path.

  3. President Trump:

    No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea.

  4. Burgess Owens:

    Im so against anybody portraying that generation that didso much to raise such a great group of kidsto be looked at as hopeless and hapless, they would beput down and disgusted to be looked at as oppressed when we were victors.

  5. Mark Updegrove:

    He had total faith in Lady Bird, luci and Lynda Bird Johnson, the Bird Johnson daughters, both traveled for parts, and there were wives of senators and congressmen who joined, Lady Bird's press secretary, also a woman -- it was not just an intrepid and heroic act, it was all conducted by women at a time when women were as marginalized as people of color, who had been oppressed throughout The South.


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