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oppressor
[ uh-pres-er ]
noun
- a person or group that exercises authority or power over another in a harsh and burdensome way:
Meanwhile the oppressors, blind to the brutal and unjust practices sustaining their dominance, simply increase the level of force against any who resist.
Other Words From
- pre·op·pres·sor noun
- self-op·pres·sor noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of oppressor1
Example Sentences
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor.
Anyone who felt the boot of the oppressor realized that he was going in the face of that.
The many, many people who think racism is over or overblown, or that its dominant historic forms have been overturned and the oppressors have become the oppressed, will not pick up her book.
A Western hero, Indiana Jones, came to their rescue to teach their oppressors a text-based lesson.
Question those taking on the mantle of victimhood and you are immediately cast as some kind of aggressive, unfeeling oppressor.
In order to be elusive and to have longevity, the oppressor has learned to kill MEN while their bodies remain alive.
So many of you ARE MEN but you got trapped by the oppressor.
This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.
When you have a cause, the best way to express yourself is artistically,” he says, against “the scissor of the oppressor.
In the latter case the prince-bishop was the obnoxious oppressor.
The impossibility of escaping from the hand of the oppressor.
These alone were ready to step between the oppressor and the oppressed.
He was obliged to bow to fortune, and to swear allegiance once more to what he considered the oppressor.
Forty years will have expired this spring since the Christian peasants of Bulgaria rose in arms against the Turkish oppressor.
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