repressive

a repressive moral code.

the people are held down by a repressive military regime.

it was repressive enough to keep public opinion buttoned up.

the drift towards a more repressive style of policing.

The government’s repressive policies are sowing the seeds of rebellion.

a dog that didn't cotton to strangers; an administration that will cotton up to the most repressive of regimes.

The politics of the former regime were rejected by the new government leadership. If the politics of the conservative government now borders on the repressive, what can be expected when the economy falters?

And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.