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

Katara’s ambivalence aside, that she and Aang end up together is weirdly retrogressive message to send, as though she’s a prize for his persistence and heroism.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2020

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

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 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 Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)