retrograde

A bizarre hodgepodge of retrograde machismo and perfectly manicured nails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

In the minds of some retrograde dweebs, representing these baddies with a woman who could play Barbie was sacrilege.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

The dreamy vistas of domestic arts, which may have once seemed frivolous, passé, even politically retrograde for some, become a source of deep allure for people of different political stripes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

Weronika had suffered a rare complication - unusual retrograde amnesia.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 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

When a man ceases to work he retrogrades; he becomes a stranger to lofty ideals and wholesome activities.

From A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece by Charles Stewart Given

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We shall discover, in a word, whether we have advanced, in dependence upon the Spirit of God and in recognition of our responsibilities, or whether we have retrograded through self-trust and indifference.

From Presbyterian Worship Its Spirit, Method and History by Robert Johnston

This hypothesis, or speculation, is not without probability: since the bird of the barn-yard, instead of being an improvement, even in bulk, upon the wild species, is in reality a retrograded and inferior creature.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

The countenance of the young girl’s companion retrograded from its new-found favor to a more inexorable cast.

From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher

In the art and joy of singing together our people seem to have retrograded.

From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow

“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

Only a few seconds did he spend thus when he began retrograding, like a crab.

From Through Apache Lands by Edward Sylvester Ellis

All that I could accomplish in the circumstances was that, instead of retrograding, he kept describing circles.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Judging from appearances, however, it would seem that the town is not growing in population or business relations, but is rather retrograding.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou