repressive, punitive, oppressive, paternalistic, manipulative, dictatorial, persecutory, draconian, forcible, reactionary, totalitarian, institutionalized, preemptive, undemocratic, preclusive, monopsony, fascistic, tyrannical, hegemonic, exploitative, discriminatory, extralegal, adversarial, countervailing, counterproductive, intrusive, misogynous, highhanded, restrictive, unethical, monopolistic, confrontational, illiberal, inimical, nondemocratic, discriminative, confiscatory, formalistic, exclusionist, pernicious, authoritarian, dehumanizing, exclusionary, unjust, imperialistic, extrajudicial, unilateral, intimidatory, disfavored, retributive, liberatory, deceitful, positivistic, patriarchal, antithetical, exploitive, arbitrary, regressive, unwarrantable, abusive, obstructive, totalistic, vindictive, capitalistic, unreasonable, perverse, absolutist, ameliorative, irrational, predatory, preemptory, immoral, rational, particularist, facilitative, hostile, interventionist, persuasive, uncoerced, anticonstitutional, normative, contumacious, overt, subversive, volitional, implicit, peremptory, despotic, uncooperative, anarchical, fortiori, retrogressive, wrongheaded, orwellian, counterfactual, nurturant, overbearing, distortive, colourable, suppressive, corruptive, reprehensible, deviant, directional, empirical, personal, racist, tragic, vulgar, adaptive, apocalyptic, deserving, evil, foreign, morbid, natural, sexist, traumatic, boring, combustible, consuming, degenerate, noncoercive, regulative, tive, educative, impersonal, terroristic, inhumane, regulatory

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