Adjective : a progressive mayor. ,a progressive community. ,progressive schools. From Dictionary.com.
What’s unprogressive is that it’s legalized slavery, and a true progressive would not participate. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » January 2005: Gonzales Said Bush Did Not ‘Authorize Actions’ In Contravention of Our Criminal Statutes] Reference
It amazes me how as a country we are so unprogressive. From Wordnik.com. [Not asking; telling] Reference
They are raising money by doing most unprogressive things. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Ingraham spam, courtesy of the RPV.] Reference
India as an overpopulated, stagnant, and unprogressive land. From Wordnik.com. [If Not Silver, What?] Reference
Instinct is a faculty which belongs to unprogressive species. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
She should guard against becoming autocratic and unprogressive. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The unprogressive man would pray simply for safety and protection. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
I felt no condemnation; yet the memory, static, unprogressive, haunted me. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
Agriculture, under such circumstances, could not fail to be unprogressive. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The population is largely of a mixed and unprogressive character, and numbered. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Unfortunately, unprogressive builders are still adhering to this inartistic plan. From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
But her government is not only stupidly unprogressive, it is also disastrously wasteful. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
This absence of popular education, more than anything else, made Oriental civilization unprogressive. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Everywhere into that huge, inert, unprogressive Oriental world came the active and enterprising men of. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
This "superintendence" is a most unsatisfactory system, -- temporary and unprogressive in every element. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
But then again, that pretty much sums up just how unprogressive he and the other new cabinet members are. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Steve Hildebrand; Steve, Did you tell Progressives to Shut the F Up?] Reference
The thesis that China was a static and unprogressive civilization received its classical formulation in Hegel's. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
We can thrive on a plant based diet … The rest is just a rotting remnant of a cruel, unprogressive herding mentality. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Obama vs Worsted Wool Producers] Reference
Hence their lack of originality, their habit of imitation: hence the unchanging, unprogressive character of Chinese civilization. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
This is so unpolitical, so unprogressive, so unreligious, so goshdarned secularly luxuriant and indulgent that I am almost ashamed. From Wordnik.com. [2007 September | Jewschool] Reference
The leftards use the word progressive and then they refuse to debate "Certain" issues and subjects because they deem them unprogressive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
See how great that empire had become, and how stationary and unprogressive was their own little kingdom, because it clung to the old ways. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
Meanwhile another superdelegate endorsed Obama ... this guys is the future of America but some unprogressive Americans cannot see this. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton sees influx of campaign cash] Reference
Thenceforth the Italian front remained a tense but unprogressive field of action until the final collapse of Germany in April and May 1945. From Wordnik.com. [1944, Jan. 22] Reference
Though his early essays are brilliant with many noble thoughts, the principles he advocates in them are thoroughly unprogressive and unpractical. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
But the way those laws are applied, however, by unprogressive, paternalistic, and unimaginative family law judges across America is anything but neutral. From Wordnik.com. [Goldman Brazilian Nightmare Over: Father and Son Finally Reunited] Reference
Today, the word feudal is sometimes used as a general term for a set of social relationships that seems unprogressive or out of step with modern society. From Wordnik.com. [feudalism] Reference
In doing so, even some of the greatest admirers of China posited a civili - zation that was unchanging, unprogressive, and being rapidly overtaken by the West. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Never had that great gathering place, that incessant, aimless, unprogressive hurry of waste and battered things, been so crowded with strange and melancholy derelicts. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
The French squadron in West Africa has the advantage over ours of employing these men, who are clean, intelligent, and brave; whilst we are reduced to the unprogressive. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Reconnaissance in person was an archaic and unprogressive procedure, and it was a good way to get generals killed, but one could see a lot of things that would be missed on TV. From Wordnik.com. [Uller Uprising]
Boeotia were considered by the Athenians to be a dull and unprogressive people. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Great Retreats of History] Reference
Very unprogressive, very uncreative, very basic and undeveloped group of people. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
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