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

Here, those evolutionary limbs also play a retrogressive role.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2019

The level of unapologetic conjecture I’ve encountered lately isn’t just frustrating, it’s retrogressive, unprecedented and absolutely terrifying.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2018

Basically, the test is: Is this law retrogressive?

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2017

I know too little about organic pleasure and its conditions, and will not be at all surprised if the retrogressive character of the analysis leads us back finally to a generalized factor.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund