Retrogressive in a sentence as an adjective

Even if you accept that it's a retrogressive movement his point stands because it is a general one.>There was no point here.

With all due respect dude, this is incredibly retrogressive and I suggest you reevaluate your personal views on that.

I for one didn't like the pricing regime because it was retrogressive and changed what I understood to be a purchase into a short-notice rental.

I've unfollowed a lot of people because they shared their very strong, retrogressive views on everything from homosexual rights to certain religions.

And while Apple is very, very good at negotiating with content owners, the money in TV is tied up in really, really complicated and retrogressive contracts, and the TV people perceive Apple as predatory, entirely missing the point of what happened to the record industry.

The title is eye-catching and the writer has a good writing style, but I see a lot of problems with the headline as well as the content- Microsoft's private offices were an innovation in the 80s/90s, cramming large numbers of worker bees into a single large office is a retrogressive step, not a 21st century innovation- The writers focus is on Visual Studio, but a number of other teams had switched to agile much earlier.

Does this mean Mr. Snowden is officially a whistleblower-hero, or still a traitor who deserves life imprisonment?As for the notion of requiring private telecomm companies to store data and provide access to the gov't, although still just a hypothetical situation and not yet policy, would this not simply shift the burden from the NSA to private companies?Obviously, they're already handing over the data, but making it all official and open seems like a retrogressive policy that would in the long run backfire as Americans turn to overseas hosted services not beholden to the NSA.

If we had to describe a man who is retrogressive in the most evil sense of the word—we should say, he is one who would dub himself a reformer of our constitution, while every interest for which he is immediately responsible is going to decay: a philanthropist who cannot bear one rogue to be hanged, but does not mind five honest tenants being half-starved: a man who shrieks at corruption, and keeps his farms at rack-rent: who roars himself red at rotten boroughs, and does not mind if every field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open-hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives who will pay for their seats out of their own pockets: what he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's.

Retrogressive definitions

adjective

going from better to worse

See also: retrograde