Example sentences for: regressive

How can you use “regressive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But there's no justification for paying for defense or environmental protection or the weather bureau with a regressive tax that hits only the lower part of earnings and hits investment income not at all.

  • He predicts that “brain differences in kids with a regressive form of autism will be different than those of kids with the more congenital type of autism.”

  • This is true because the vast majority of tax revenue that is collected in the United States is regressive: sales taxes, property taxes (which are passed on to renters, so paid by everyone), Social Security, etc.

  • He also mentions the four types of palindromization (two will suffice here): progressive additive: papregressive additive: Nan

  • Scalia as regressive; balls as metaphor; Clarence Thomas as ventriloquist's dummy.


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