unprogressive

Example Sentences

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I have never wanted to be the unprogressive, afraid-of-technology type of writer or professor.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2023

Just as in the XC90 T8 I drove in 2015, the sedan’s brake response was sometimes touchy and unprogressive around town, with the friction brakes and regenerative braking seeming to saw at each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2018

If summer is the time for anything, it’s the time for refreshingly unprogressive comedies like Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.

From Time • Jul. 7, 2016

As James J. Saxon, until recently Comptroller of the Currency, saw it, "Enclaves of monopoly and stagnant, unprogressive banks should not be safeguarded."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hampered by the blinding prejudice of a long line of centuries; many of these earlier organizations, as might have been foreseen, were unsparingly criticised as exhibitions of ill-directed foolishness, altogether crude, unprogressive and unsatisfactory.

From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.