It was oppressively hot in the office. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an oppressive king; oppressive laws. ,oppressive heat. ,oppressive sorrows. From Dictionary.com.
"Why so oppressively nautical?" inquired Percival. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.] Reference
It was a clear midsummer day, not oppressively warm. From Wordnik.com. [Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation] Reference
But when noon's sultry hour proves oppressively hot. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox Stories of Natural History] Reference
A few days later the sun came out oppressively warm. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
"It has been oppressively hot all day," he observed. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
A few other things, it's oppressively hot here today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2008] Reference
The air was oppressively hot, and the sea lay like lead. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
'It is inexpressibly, oppressively beautiful, Sear Leaf!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
His inferior servants were treated even still more oppressively. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
The household had retired, and the night was oppressively silent. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Written in an oppressively popular style with emphasis on Baxter and. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
By this time it is nearly five o'clock, and as yet oppressively warm. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Close to a fire, although the day is oppressively warm, and wrapped in. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
It was oppressively hot, and Peter had been riding all the previous night. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
He knew and felt most oppressively that everything almost was against him. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
It's been an oppressively hot and humid summer in much of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt] Reference
The day had been oppressively hot, but there were no immediate signs of a storm. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
The Dallas Observer called Penn's love letter to the Academy "oppressively pandering.". From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Presently the room seemed to her oppressively hot and she rose and opened the casement. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
The weather was oppressively hot, and certainly the roads could not well be more dusty. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
It was less oppressively modern that the rest of the house and he had an idea the master of. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
There are, unhappily, but too many instances of free nations that have behaved oppressively. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
The town is mean in appearance, and has a very unhealthy climate, oppressively hot and humid. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Nevertheless a sense of loneliness and isolation were at times oppressively felt by the young man. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
I was in the virator, but it was uncomfortable to remain inside, as the air was oppressively warm. From Wordnik.com. [Zarlah the Martian] Reference
With another oppressively hot weekend ahead, July has established itself as one of the hottest on record. From Wordnik.com. [Oppressively hot weekend helps establish July as one for the record books] Reference
After breakfast he and Peter slept for a time, for both were dog-tired, and the day was oppressively hot. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
It was almost midnight before Miriam and Elfreda went softly down the oppressively quiet hall to their room. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
He bore all these indignities with the utmost humility, and he daily beheld his followers treated oppressively. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
The drape of her braids somehow reminded him of oppressively sticky hot air and thick bunches of trees everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
Both Wednesday and Thursday are hot and oppressively humid as moist tropical air continuously funnels into the region. From Wordnik.com. [Forecast: Heating up; showers around & about] Reference
His soul was calmed; and so are the elements, fearfully and oppressively, sometimes an hour before the tempest and the storm. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
John, oppressively cheerful, beside him, and, looking back as they drive briskly up the avenue, takes a last glance at Brooklyn, with. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
The atmosphere felt oppressively close, and was tainted with gaseous odors which had been tormented forth by the processes of science. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
"It is a very distressing case," says Mr. Buscarlet, blowing his nose oppressively, -- the more so that he feels for her very sincerely. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
It is a tax which would be so generally diffused among the people that it would be felt oppressively by none and be complained of by none. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
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