retrogressive
Example Sentences
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What could be crazier and more retrogressive was the lavish 1961 movie adaptation of “West Side Story,” which has now been lavishly remade by Steven Spielberg and opens in theaters today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
“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
A silly, frustrating game, with some deeply retrogressive aspects attending its role in broader society.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2016
The precession of the equinoxes is slowly progressive, or rather retrogressive; the nutation of the pole oscillatory in a period of about eighteen years.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
