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coercive
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co·er·cive  (k-ûrsv)
adj.
Characterized by or inclined to coercion.

co·ercive·ly adv.
co·ercive·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.coercive - serving or intended to coerce; "authority is directional instead of coercive"
powerful - having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument"
Translations
coercive [kəʊˈɜːsɪv] ADJcoactivo, coercitivo
coercive [kəʊˈɜːrsɪv] adj [power, measure] → coercitif/ive
coercive
adjZwangs-
coercive [kəʊˈɜːsɪv] adjcoercitivo/a
coercive [kəʊˈɜːsɪv] adjcoercitivo/a


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The coerciveness of prepackaged femininity and the nauseous entwining of postwar American consumerism with the destruction in Vietnam inspire these montages, in which ads filled with nubile models are made to speak against themselves and lovely homes are infiltrated with shots of burning villages, napalmed peasants, and tense GIs.
Although they blundered into a new type of error by imparting generality to specific cases, they benefited from the extreme-case intervention by acquiring "immunity" to the coerciveness of intuitive impact.
The determination is based on whether a reasonable person under the circumstances would sense the coerciveness of the environment that Miranda was designed to protect against.
 
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