Synonyms for suppressive
sup·pres·sive

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1. suppressiveadjective

   tending to suppress

   "the government used suppressive measures to control the protest"

   Antonyms:
   unrestrictive

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1. List of paraphrases for "suppressive":

   suppressor, repressive

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1. James Carville:

   Don’t just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island and Seattle, Washington. This defund-police lunacy and take Lincoln’s name off of schools … people see that. It’s having a suppressive effect across the country. Some people need to go to a woke detox center.

2. Chris Hollins:

   The Governor's suppressive tactics should not be tolerated, and tonight's ruling shows that the law is on the side of( the) Texas voter, seniors and voters with disabilities across Harris County need these drop-off locations to deliver their mail ballots safely and conveniently during the global pandemic. We shouldn't be playing politics with voters' lives.

3. John Stanley:

   The government should take full cognizance of the fact that a particular regime is an authoritarian regime, it is suppressive of human rights ... and is likely to use force if necessary to protect its authority, if you look at human rights violations and you look at the use of force, sadly without any question over the last 12 months things have deteriorated in a pretty worrying way.

4. James Carville:

   What’s wrong is this stupid wokeness, this defund-the-police lunacy. This‘Take AbrahamLincoln’s name off of the schools.’Peoplesee that, and it just really has a suppressive effect on Democrats.Some of these people need to go to a woke detox centeror something.

5. Melissa Murray:

   You don't have an opportunity to object to the passage of those restrictive laws in your home state if there are suppressive voter laws -- and of course there are suppressive voter laws, in part because The US Supreme Court has dismantled the Voting Rights Act preclearance regime, the US Supreme Court has absented The US Supreme Court from the question of partisan gerrymandering, so there's no federal court solution. The US Supreme Court's really left to the states to deal with those issues. And The US Supreme Court's a bit like allowing a burglar to correct whatever he's stolen when he's burgled your home.