The Muslim Brotherhood is a retrograde, conservative religious movement.
“Women are seeing the retrograde direction of this party,” she asserts.
Diaspora Jews—stuck in ghettos with retrograde Halachic norms—lacked these Hebrew things.
Note: negative manifestation of this retrograde is overindulgence in that which artificially stills your racing mind.
Neptune retrograde on Friday begins a period of transparency.
The ideal is as impracticable as it is puerile and retrograde.
Such a return to the nakedness of the brute must be retrograde.
This is the kernel of all that is most retrograde in Mr. Carlyle's teaching.
But she had an idea that the world would go on rather than retrograde.
Its retrograde movement was slow, but steady and irresistible.
retrograde ret·ro·grade (rět'rə-grād')
adj.
Moving or tending backward.
Opposite to the usual order; inverted or reversed.
Reverting to an earlier or inferior condition.
To move or seem to move backward; recede.
To decline to an inferior state; degenerate.
retrograde
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