retrogressive
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of retrogressive
1795–1805; < Latin retrōgress ( us ) ( see retrogress) + -ive
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
And no doubt the Oscars will give retrogressive awards again—maybe as soon as next year, if they give Best Picture to Hillbilly Elegy over, say, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2020
They seem to have souls—that ultimate retrogressive term!—though by “soul” we need imply nothing more metaphysical here than the sum total of one person’s affect in the mind of another.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
In fact, Adès is an impossible-to-pin-down disintegration of retrogressive styles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2016
When these tubercles are sufficiently numerous to become confluent, large masses may be formed, which undergo the same retrogressive changes of caseation and calcification.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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