unprogressive


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Synonyms for unprogressive

clinging to obsolete ideas

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Synonyms for unprogressive

old-fashioned and out of date

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Overall, however, Caliban's uneasy muddling of making art and giving life results in unprogressive, unevolutionary change: he creates a bird, only to injure it, deform its shape, and render it an egg, the primitive, originary shape of a bird.
"The tax reform was enacted primarily to increase the purchasing power of each taxpayer who has been overburdened by the inequitable and unprogressive income tax system that has not been changed for almost two decades," Angara said in the explanatory note of his bill.
However, what distinguishes the rising and dynamic nations from the stagnant and unprogressive ones is a true commitment to this fact and a translation of it into plans, strategies, and policies that invest in the youth and prepare them to deal with the requirements of the future.
If he was speaking in his normal style we could expect something more like "an unprogressive agglomeration of reactionary and craven invertebrates".
In choosing stories that emphasize citizen activism, Cole has left out important ways that the federal courts are anti-democratic and distinctly unprogressive, although not at all apolitical.
It has been formalistically read as a fractal metaphor of cyclic, unprogressive narratives dominating the naturalist aesthetic (Pizer 1984, 21).
The unprogressive extent to which taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations have declined in recent decades, along with overall global taxes as a percentage of world GDP, is staggering, and another reason for the rise of the 1%.
"Mostly, I think we just got tired of living the baby boomer fantasy of ideal romantic love, propagated in large part by the society's unprogressive cultural expectations regarding gender roles."
"The problem was that natural selection was wasteful, slow, unprogressive, and inhumane.
But since this new party wishes to disband in seven years, I don't want to appear unkindly dismissive, but should we in any case be unduly bothered by its somewhat archaic and unprogressive mind-set?
The novel denies the young heroine Hester the opportunity to become economically self-sufficient and successful as her aunt Catherine, which can be interpreted as an unprogressive throwback.
But it's also fairly problematically unprogressive a couple hundred years ago, when it was basically all the same stuff being worked out.
(5) Not only does this falsely separate concepts of trade and subsistence from other areas of life, it reinforces old stereotypes of static and unprogressive Indigenous peoples, ignoring the forces of development and change present in the histories of all people.
Head of Product and Creative Director, Myles Blasonato, believes that a vision to change the way a new generation of gamers consume online casinos by giving players greater control over a wagering outcome, is the right approach to truly disrupt a relatively bloated, slow and unprogressive industry, and to expand the existing online casino players.