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dbnary-eng:traditionalist dbnary-eng:reactionary

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Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.

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retrograde ideas, morals, etc.

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Such retrograde people still exist, resisting modernity, dragging their feet.

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1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 74:

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[…] in the form of the pussyfooted Alexis Smith. While referring to [Cole] Porter's 1946 film (alleged) biography, Night and Day, she mentions there were "certain aspects of the story which at that time they could not do." Was "certain aspects" a euphemism for gay? Smith's misplaced politeness here is truly retrograde.

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1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8: