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

And with three racially and sexually diverse leads and an equally diverse auxiliary cast, 12 Dates largely manages to bypass the retrogressive politics that have plagued the Bachelor franchise—while simultaneously guaranteeing maximal drama.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2020

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

Thus it has ever been in periods of decay; thus it will be with us when we have once reached that point whence every movement is retrogressive.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)