retrograde

"Once again, this is an abuse of power that characterises the regime's retrograde practices. The aim is to silence a dissenting voice," it said in a statement.

The Republican position on women is slightly more cloaked, but no less retrograde.

Increasingly, they seem comfortable with reskinning their retrograde ideas with the aesthetics of woo-woo instead of Christianity, so long as it serves the goal of crushing social progress.

Another reason is that, if you can translate Latin, some of the lyrics are quite bawdy and politically retrograde.

When I challenge Ms Brychcy over whether that could be seen as retrograde, she replied that "biologically speaking, we are men and women" and thinks people should present accordingly.