That's retrogressive (re t fin s (all rev).).
If the setting is retro, many of its values are retrogressive.
Cavenagh said although the arrest was lawful under NT legislation, the paperless arrest scheme was "retrogressive" and unjustifiable preventive detention.
Cavanagh said while the arrest was lawful under NT legislation, the paperless arrest scheme was "retrogressive" and unjustifiable preventative detention, and recommended it be repealed.
In this environment, arguments against the extension of the copyright term in sound recordings from 50 to 95 years are retrogressive and misconceived.
And these experts thought it was retrogressive in its reliance on American universities, faith-based organizations and nongovernmental organizations, whose ability to pay higher salaries could drain workers from local public health systems that should be reinforced instead.
It's also clear that most versions of the flat tax — such as Malcolm S. Forbes's suggestions, in 1996, or Herman Cain's "9-9-9," in 2012 — have enormous potential for unfairness; for being retrogressive, by hurting the poor more than the rich; for setting off calls for value-added taxes, which might be more retrogressive; and for simply being ploys to grant favors to various interest groups.
Because Jaguar got a new owner last year, it recently launched the XF saloon; it has just launched a whole new range of engines (thus rendering those first XFs obsolescent), and soon it will reveal a new XJ saloon as futuristic as the current one is retrogressive.
But most disappointing of all, for readers, is that commenters don't, as literary critics say, read an article against itself to show how, for example, an argument framed as incendiary is in fact banal, or one that's meant to be feminist is retrogressive, or one that touts its originality is a knockoff.
