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
In fact, Adès is an impossible-to-pin-down disintegration of retrogressive styles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2016
Activity is then not inimical to the organism, but is the appointed means by which the progressive and retrogressive metamorphoses must be carried out.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
