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regressive adjective atavistic, backsliding, decadent, degenerate, ill-advised, lapsing, on the decline, receding, recessive, recidivistic, recidivous, relapsing, retrocedent, retrograde, retrogressive, reversed, reversionary, tergiversating, withering Associated concepts: regressive tax See also: decadent How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Of course, the literarization of "environmental literature," while in tune with "third culture" rhetoric, has ironic overtones, since in the last decade the canon thereof has expanded regressively, as it were, and much previously-considered "nonliterary" cultural creation (maybe even The Ecology of Waste Water Management) is considered legitimately subject to interpretation from an ecocritical perspective. His gestures and geometry may be the fading signifiers of a dying modernism, but they have not lost their transcendental import--however uncertain, and however regressively bound to an impressionist sense of slippery nature, they may seem. The income tax history in our time has, with the silence of most of the news media, shifted the burden regressively to sales taxes, which hit the disposable income of ordinary families the hardest. |
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