retrograde

Example Sentences

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“This retrograde majority has inexplicably lashed out at children ideologically,” Schlein said.

From Washington Times

Consider the movement to scrub from the English language and the rest of life everything that anyone might consider harmful or otherwise retrograde.

From Washington Post

“Detaining families has no place in this quest. We implore the administration to reject this shameful, retrograde practice.”

From Washington Times

Racism and sexism are casually embedded in Fleming’s novels — a dark mirror held up to a retrograde worldview that the Beatles were in the process of dismantling.

From Los Angeles Times

By turns revolutionary and retrograde, liberated and conservative, a traditionalist who defied labels and loved a title, Colette was nothing if not contradictory.

From New York Times