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
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
Basically, the test is: Is this law retrogressive?
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2017
You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2016
I know too little about organic pleasure and its conditions, and will not be at all surprised if the retrogressive character of the analysis leads us back finally to a generalized factor.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
