regressive
adjective
regressively
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a word derived from
regressive.
Example Sentences
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As a movie directed by a woman with two women at its center, “The Old Guard” goes against the often regressively macho conventions of the action genre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2020
Most regressively Californian are the environmental soundscapes of Steve Halpern, 39, a New Age pioneer with 35 albums to his credit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Setting out from the present moment, I can move regressively to the preceding state of consciousness, to the penultimate, and so on.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully
The four moments imply one another regressively by their concretion.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Such an evasion is offered by the fixations established in the course of its evolution and now traversed regressively, against which the ego had, at the time, protected itself by suppressions.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
