Synonyms for oppressor
op·pres·sor

Princeton's WordNet

1. oppressornoun

   a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

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1. • Unpleasant Person

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1. oppressornoun

   Synonyms:
   tyrant

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1. oppressornoun

   Synonyms:
   tyrant, persecutor, extortioner

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1. Nim Ralph:

   She is arguing against 1 % of the population, who she recognizes is being harmed and marginalized -- that is not a position of protecting your own rights [ as a woman ], that is becoming the oppressor, white women have always tried to control the definition of women and there is a legacy of black feminist and women of color who have fought against that singularity.

2. Keke Palmer:

   At 26, I'm looking out and witnessing a physical revolt, and it's a revolt on a scale that I wasn't sure I'd ever see. To those that may not be looking close enough, all they will see is looting, or people who don't really care about the movement, or anarchy without a movement. But what I see is a society responding to the oppressor about how the oppressor has responded to us, racism is what the country was built on : Slavery, systematic oppression, then voter oppression, female oppression, poor education system so you're intentionally uninformed, financial oppression.

3. James Levine:

   As understandably troubling as the accusations noted in recent press accounts are, they are unfounded, as anyone who truly knows me will attest, I have not lived my life as an oppressor or an aggressor.

4. Quisha King:

   They are reading the K-12 version of critical race theory, which is boiled down to this oppressor or oppressed talk… It is a dwindled down teaching of the theory. It is absolutely there, it’s not just in schools.

5. Unknown:

   To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor.