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Meanings of retrogressive in English

Going from better to worse.

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Usage of retrogressive in English
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The decision to abolish university fees has been both unwise and retrogressive.
The Irish Times
2
Further than this retrogressive and imitative movement he never seemed to go.
Twelve Types
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But in terms of political liberty the record has been far more retrogressive.
The Irish Times
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Some sources within the DIT view the bid for university status as retrogressive.
The Irish Times
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They say he is the most retrogressive man in the county.
Middlemarch
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Yet we see that our days are retrogressive in every way.
Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I
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Evidently no door was to be left open for retrogressive consideration.
A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the...
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It is, quite simply, all a bit dull and retrogressive.
The Guardian
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In Music a retrogressive step in which there is much hope, has been taken.
Charles Dickens and Music
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In contrast to this, the two other cases are called retrogressive and degressive mutability.
Darwin and Modern Science
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Hyatt distinguished the four lineages on the basis of supposedly progressive and retrogressive characters.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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The dirty retrogressive Boer vanished from our scheme of illusion.
The New Machiavelli
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She asks why would radical feminists be aligning with such socially retrogressive right-wing religious movements.
Radio NZ
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The retrogressive elements can be summed up as entwined and mutually reinforcing dehistoricisation and essentialisation.
The South African
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North Korea's detonation of a nuclear test weapon is a profoundly retrogressive event in world politics.
The Irish Times
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A move to retroactively tax foreign investors in the budget was also widely criticised as retrogressive.
Reuters
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