retrogressive
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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
And no doubt the Oscars will give retrogressive awards again—maybe as soon as next year, if they give Best Picture to Hillbilly Elegy over, say, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2020
Here, those evolutionary limbs also play a retrogressive role.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2019
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
The operation is repeated from time to time, and as a result the new growth undergoes retrogressive changes, and cicatrization takes place.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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