retrograded
- past participle of retrograde.
- past tense form of retrograde.
Example Sentences
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Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded.
From Time Magazine Archive
So well has it been managed that its business has increased rather than retrograded during the past year, as bad as it has been for all kinds of business.
From Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868 by Carleton, George W.
But of one thing I am fairly confident:—I never really went backward, never seriously retrograded artistically.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise
In the art and joy of singing together our people seem to have retrograded.
From The American Country Girl by Crow, Martha Foote
It barely communicated with the others and retrograded towards barbarism without regularly organized government or other will than that of its respective tyrant and the free-lances who were his immediate followers.
From The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Quesada, Ernesto
