retrograde

Some of the listed performers, including Bret Michaels, Milli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice, weren’t all that shocking given Trump’s retrograde pop music taste.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

The best, and most popular, of these was Norman Lear’s generation-gap sitcom “All in the Family,” starring Carroll O’Connor as retrograde bigot Archie Bunker, and Rob Reiner as his liberal son-in-law, Mike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Weronika had suffered a rare complication - unusual retrograde amnesia.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

GLAAD, the advocacy group, declared that “Emilia Pérez” presented “a profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

In that letter Jefferson had mentioned Adams in passing as a retrograde thinker opposed to all forms of progress, one of the “ancients” rather than “moderns.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Sometimes it is said that the high retrogrades, or backs off to the west, allowing the storm track to come down the coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Known in our dancers’ nomenclature as “The King and Queen,” it is built primarily on one basic theme with its inversions, reversals and retrogrades.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2015

He could goad the traditionalists beneath him, promote the "new thinkers," purge the retrogrades, and keep an eye out for obstructionism, sabotage, insurgency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or he might be overthrown and replaced by retrogrades who would have at their disposal the military wherewithal to engage once again in old thinking and old behavior.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no such possibility as a nation's standing still; it either retrogrades or progresses.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded.

From Time Magazine Archive

Centuries have gone by and not one of these barren—centuries during which man remained stationary or retrograded into dense ignorance.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

It barely communicated with the others and retrograded towards barbarism without regularly organized government or other will than that of its respective tyrant and the free-lances who were his immediate followers.

From The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Quesada, Ernesto

But of one thing I am fairly confident:—I never really went backward, never seriously retrograded artistically.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise

Nor is a change of views necessarily a reproach to a politician, even though he may have retrograded or gone wrong.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin

“Similar retrograding blocks in the past have been associated with periods of colder and wintry weather in the Eastern U.S.,” meteorologist John Homenuk wrote on Twitter.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022

The four boys were looking for possible routes of escape when Red’s brother decided that in arbitration lay his salvation from this swiftly retrograding dilemma.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

From the nature of his food alone he has been long retrograding in physical capability, and, of course, energy of mind.

From Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration by Rogers, Jasper W.

I am very glad this happened to you instead of an uneventful summer on the farm and retrograding, I am afraid.

From Helen Grant's Schooldays by Douglas, Amanda M.

She continued to move on, though without knowing whether she were advancing or retrograding.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny