Sentence examples for retrogressive from inspiring English sources
The word 'retrogressive' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that is going back to a previous, usually less advanced, stage. For example, "The proposed policy changes would be a retrogressive step, undoing decades of progress."
adjective
Of or relating to retrogression
What's happening in the Republican party is the worst of both the Tea Party and more traditional "free-market" (but never really as free as advertised) economics: an aggressive "pro-business" agenda combined with radically retrogressive social policies.
He calls Mr Pearce's bill "the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited and useless anti-immigrant law" and wonders whether Arizonans are "now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques".
This will provide a reference point from which changes can be measured.The team will then try to work out how the development of features such as "retrogressive thaw slumps" and "active-layer detachments" (different ways in which thawing permafrost can cause a hillside to slip) are associated with the local climate, geology and vegetation.
It is also a departure from the more flexible German tradition of letting unions and employers negotiate in each industry—a system that helped keep German wages low during the early years of this century when other euro-zone economies went on a binge that left them uncompetitive.The coalition's pension policy seems even more retrogressive.
As a rational, liberal-minded sort of bloke, he considers the English class structure to be a piece of antiquated and retrogressive nonsense.
Becke's subsequent work on retrogressive metamorphism led to a deeper understanding of many ancient mountain belts.
He further concluded that the higher rate of reproduction among blacks had a retrogressive effect on evolution.
His retrogressive course led to disillusionment among the Poles, but in the late 1950s many people still believed his policies resulted from pressure from Moscow.
A critical question remains unanswered concerning the cause of the intrinsic retrogressive changes in cell and organ structure and function that occur throughout the aging process.
Is this an incongruously retrogressive choice for a woman who recently reaffirmed her feminist credentials?
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.
