The phrase "and retrogressive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is regressive or moving backward in terms of progress or development.
Example: "The new policies implemented by the government are seen as restrictive and retrogressive, hindering social advancement."
Alternatives: "and regressive" or "and backward-looking".
It seemed corny and retrogressive then.
It is, quite simply, all a bit dull and retrogressive.
As a rational, liberal-minded sort of bloke, he considers the English class structure to be a piece of antiquated and retrogressive nonsense.
What is safe to say is that she was a Janus-headed figure in women's history, simultaneously progressive and retrogressive in her approach to women's social roles.
Thermokarst landforms include thawing ice wedge networks5,6, degrading peat plateaus7 and palsas8,9, and on slopes, active layer detachments10,11 and retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS 12.
Leading barristers have already identified that allowing universities to charge tuition fees of up to £9,000 a year breaches human rights law, being both discriminatory and retrogressive.
Now, as throughout history, organised Anousia has repeatedly been dangerous, destabilising, and persistently retrogressive, and as one of the most backward forces in today's world it ought not to be supported from public funds in gaining access to children: yet our own government is actively promoting it.
LOS ANGELES — When David Hockney began his career, figurative painting was considered old hat and even retrogressive.
She wrote that Roberts's analysis was "rigid," "crabbed," and "stunningly retrogressive," that it "finds no home in the text of the Constitution or our decisions" and made "scant sense".
Friedrich von Hayek, the Austrian economist revered by American conservatives, argued that democratic socialism threatened a form of brutal tyranny that all supporters of a free society would view as primitive and unenlightened — retrogressive, as it were.
Observations showed that topographic surfaces with concave lateral profiles shelter mudflows and some retrogressive rotational slumps while slopes characterized by planar lateral profiles are sites mainly for translational slides.
