Sentence example with the word 'unprogressive'

unprogressive

backward, benighted, die-hard, ignorant, old-fashioned, old-line, preservative, reactionist, right-wing, ultraconservative, undeveloped

Definition adj. old-fashioned and out of date

Last update: July 31, 2015


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A very considerable percentage of Argentina's population of five to six millions is hopelessly poor and unprogressive, and cannot be expected to bear its share of the burden.   [Please select]

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Women are said to be monopolizing the education; is it making them more amenable to reasonableness and less under the control of unprogressive conservatism.   [Please select]

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Said Morgan, "Niggers are lazy, ignorant, and unprogressive; railroad traffic is created only by industrious, intelligent, and ambitious people."   [Please select]

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David Price, Miss Flossy's father, was the president of a small and unprogressive but eminently solid bank.   [Please select]

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The Indian population, they believed, belonged to the unprogressive and unproductive peoples of the earth.   [Please select]

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A gentleman in the black garments of the unprogressive noblesse turned: "Your card, citizen, or monsieur, as you like."   [Please select]

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This absence of popular education, more than anything else, made Oriental civilization unprogressive.   [Please select]

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Everywhere into that huge, inert, unprogressive Oriental world came the active and enterprising men of Hellas.   [Please select]

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"A thrifty but rather unprogressive provincial town of 60,000 inhabitants," writes Mr.   [Please select]

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Periods of industry and prosperity alternated with periods of depression, and the easy-going habitants--"farmers, hunters, traders by turn, with a strong admixture of unprogressive Indian blood"--tended always to relapse into utter indolence.   [Please select]

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Until symbolic logic had acquired its present development, the principles upon which mathematics depends were always supposed to be philosophical, and discoverable only by the uncertain, unprogressive methods hitherto employed by philosophers.   [Please select]

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