How to Use regressive in a Sentence

regressive

adjective

• That’s one of the most regressive parts of our tax system….
  — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• Jones said there is growing recognition of the regressive nature of the tax.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 27 Apr. 2023
• This fixed idea of French girl style is not only regressive but classist, too.
  — Véronique Hyland, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2022
• Kanso said the cut would make taxes even more regressive.
  — Jeff Amy, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
• Tolling can be regressive, as a flat fee for road use takes a bigger bite out of a low-income commuters’ income.
  — oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2022
• Inflation is, for the most part, a strongly regressive tax.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
• Daniels emphasizes that images like the one published to the Facebook page are regressive to the progress of racial equity.
  — Kalyn Dunkins | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2022
• The main narrative thrust of season three has been the students’ battle with Hope and her regressive policies.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2021
• If the Fed doesn’t act with due speed and skill, inflation—the most regressive tax of all—will do further harm, particularly to the least well-off.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• At the same time, there are dramatic human rights concerns around some of the regressive governments in place there.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• And throughout much of our history, it’s been quite regressive.
  — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• The moms told Fox News Digital that the term is regressive by defining a woman on her ability to conceive a child.
  — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 28 July 2022
• The hike should help the elderly, but the tax is regressive, meaning higher earners pay a lower marginal rate than the poor.
  — Charles Riley, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• And those changes, however productive or regressive, build on the foundation of the past.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
• Progressives say the Texas tax system is regressive, that the top one-fifth of households by income pay less than their fair share of state and local taxes.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
• Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 May 2022
• Nor can a happily-ever-after conclusion that doesn’t so much erase the regressive sins of the past so much as gently correct them with one eye on the present.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2022
• But some who have fought for equity worry that their brand building is regressive.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Tee is a good rapper with an ear for the gentlest Detroit beats and a smooth, patient delivery that gives every bar space to breathe, but some of the messages feel regressive.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2024
• Whispers that after all the talk of change in 2017 the pendulum is swinging back to a more regressive approach to business have spread through Hollywood.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• The use of regressive language does not operate in a vacuum.
  — Essence, 29 Aug. 2022
• From the outside, there could almost be something regressive about this idea of a loveless middle-aged woman finding renewal in the arms of a man.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 June 2023
• Lower-income people spend more of their income on gas—it’s one of these quote-unquote regressive taxes.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 13 July 2022
• Similar to how some taxes in the U.S. are regressive and put a higher burden on people with lower incomes.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• The author of the handwritten letter expressed fear over retuning to school because of the Taliban's regressive rules about women and girls.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Aug. 2021
• What’s more, this is essentially a regressive tax (as the fuel tax was), which tends to collect more from drivers with lower incomes.
  — Enrique Dans, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• The resulting jokes felt regressive—yes, ladies were into the big, gorgeous man—and frustratingly stale.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
• The pause button and a ‘regressive’ offer By May 19, the negotiations were getting shaky.
  — Stephen Groves, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• Melissa and Josh are learning more about Schmigadoon’s regressive ways, but they’re just getting sucked into it all instead of changing how the town functions.
  — Oliver Sava, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• These anti-history laws go hand in hand with regressive policies that aim to restrict our civil and voting rights.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024