regressive
Adjective
Meaning
Passing back; returning.
Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive.
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Active research focuses on the mechanisms driving the evolution of regressive traits, such as the loss of eyes, in A. mexicanus.
And their announcement that they were looking for a "progressive role" implied that the one they left behind was regressive and archaic.
Heavier, more permanent and more regressive than the poll tax proper, the intrusive entry of tax inspectors into private homes to count hearths was a very sore point, and it was promptly repealed with the Glorious Revolution in 1689.
And, just for argument sake, let's assume that Faisal Abdul Rauf believe in the most negative and regressive form of Sharia law as you allege; what difference would it make if he built his Mosque a block from Ground Zero or in Jersey City?
At the Solutions Summit he stated that WA State Legislators, despite what they say, are not really concerned about the unfairness of regressive taxes for the poor and lower income working people.
Despite the powerful and the regressive retrenchments within some left circles and spaces, the epistemic and intersectional shifts and openings of the 1960s rupture have become manifested in thought and practices present in some of our institutions.