jackbooted in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for jackbooted in the English»Italian Dictionary

jackbooted [Brit ˈdʒakbuːtɪd, Am ˈdʒækˌbudəd] ADJ

jackbooted soldier, troops

che indossa stivali militari

jackbooted fig regime, repression

duro, autoritario

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Schools require discipline, but the jackbooted kind is hardly going to produce a creative learning environment or enhance the quality of pedagogy.

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Whoever says things like this is a brownshirted, jackbooted thug.

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First we had the human rights commissions who literally jackbooted freedom of expression.

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Jackbooted security goons vs. baby-punching souvenir-monger?

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These are not a bunch of jackbooted right-wingers or whatever people think.

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Other divas project invulnerability, striding through videos like jackbooted superheroines.

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If they want it, let their faceless, jackbooted bureaucrats come and get it.

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This was an absolute dictatorship that crushed this island beneath their jackbooted heel.

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