(a.) One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gove has been eager to paint teachers as lazy gripers unwilling to embrace change.
Oppressor
Definition:
(n.) One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(2) It is simply absurd to declare that Latvians who wish to honour their compatriots who fought and died in the second world war have any sympathy for the abhorrent ideologies that were responsible for the death of so many of my people and that plunged my nation into decades of occupation by Nazi and Soviet oppressors.
(3) It was about us and not about our former oppressors.
(4) Details of this rapidly developing international incident remain contested, with the oppressors (the young ladies) telling a slightly different tale to that being spun by the victim (Fifa).
(5) Voice-hearing can be a way of trying to ward off an oppressor’s voice from completely taking over one’s subjectivity – a way to try to insert a minimal space between addresser and addressee, an attempted solution.
(6) You can't balance the violence of the oppressor with the violence of the oppressed.
(7) In academia, speakers at Bath University, surely the most malign higher education institution in Britain, call ex-Muslims “native informants ”, as if the decision of free men and women to decide for themselves what they should believe is the equivalent of collaborating with a colonial oppressor.
(8) It is my right, and my responsibility as a free person, to protest against oppression and oppressors.” She was detained on the spot.
(9) The British army, sent in as "peacekeepers", turned out to be even greater oppressors.
(10) But, in their feminine naivety, they fail to realise that their comeuppance is on its way, their freedoms snatched by the invasion of the genuine oppressor.
(11) He believed he had taken the part of woman in our marriage, and seemed to expect me to defend him against myself, the male oppressor.
(12) Oh God, deal with the usurpers and oppressors and tyrannical Jews.
(13) But the enterprising Pulgasari swallows the missile and shoots it back at his oppressors.
(14) The crucial bit in the film is when he realises his oppressors are more afraid of him than he is of them."
(15) There’s NGO Monitor, which critiques both international and local humanitarian groups for presenting a skewed picture of Israelis as the perpetual oppressor and Palestinians as the victims, and the Israel Project, which “fights to get the truth out about Israel”.
(16) Set in a dystopian post-America now known as Panem, where an elite preside over a starving, benighted working class, The Hunger Games centres around a brutal televised tournament where randomly selected teens, referred to as "tributes", are whisked away to battle to the death for the enjoyment of their oppressors.
(17) Contrary to popular romanticised notions, different subjugated groups rarely stand together against oppressors, for the obvious and often justified reason that they fear being dragged down by one another.
(18) Not since Tony Blair single-handedly liberated Kosovo from the Serb oppressor (with secondary back-up from Nato and the US air force) has a British prime minister been able to claim plaudits as a successful war leader.
(19) Black women (and I'm using black as a political term to denote shared and continued experiences of racism and colonisation) are not all (and only) oppressed and black men are not all oppressors.
(20) But while the two attorneys used their legal know-how to promote their political ends, the failure of conventional campaigning to stop the removal of the black population of the Johannesburg suburb of Sophiatown in February 1955 convinced Mandela that the ANC had no alternative but to take up armed resistance: "A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.