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

Here, those evolutionary limbs also play a retrogressive role.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2019

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

Basically, the test is: Is this law retrogressive?

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2017

Upon their surfaces and within their clefts and fissures they undergo retrogressive changes, softening, bleeding, or ulcerations.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry