retrogressive
Example Sentences
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“When our dictionary infuses a pastime that promises joy with toxic language instead, it is retrogressive and powerfully divisive.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
They seem to have souls—that ultimate retrogressive term!—though by “soul” we need imply nothing more metaphysical here than the sum total of one person’s affect in the mind of another.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
Basically, the test is: Is this law retrogressive?
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2017
You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2016
It is possible that our seeming progress may be retrogressive, that the true apex may have been reached in Greece some two thousand years ago.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
