regressive
Example Sentences
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It highlighted societal changes in Saudi Arabia that allowed edgy American comedians to perform in a country long dismissed as irredeemably puritanical and regressive.
This contrast is a good deal more dramatically compelling than the somewhat overwrought psychological drama that exerts a regressive pull on “anthropology.”
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, popular and scholarly treatments of white Southerners as overwhelmingly conservative and racially regressive abound.
From Salon
In the early 20th century, totalitarianism was best known in countries that had superficially been modernized, but remained regressive in crucial ways.
From Salon
The director describes the island's feudal way of life as deceptively safe but ultimately regressive – something Spike comes to realise.
From BBC
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