regressive
പിന്തിരിപ്പൻ
definition
adjective
the regressive, infantile wish for the perfect parent of early childhood
becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state.
Clearly we are not likely to lower regressive excise taxes on cigarettes, nor are we likely to lower the payroll tax for lower-income workers.
(of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes.
example
Apparently, the mother was unable to cope with her own alcoholism, violent domestic situation, and Jane's 'regressive' behavior.
I find their puerile, psychologically 'regressive' child's play boring and self-absorbed, but maybe I just don't understand them.
Steeply 'regressive' taxation was flattened so that those on high incomes paid considerably less while at the same time the poor were forced to pay more.
There is a genetic predisposition to 'regressive' autism, but I don't think it's a straight genetic problem, because I don't think we would have such a thing as a genetic epidemic.
Do not criticize 'regressive' behavior (returning to a previous level of development).
What will make television more diverse, less 'regressive' ?
Links and colleagues rightly note that modern short-term hospitalizations have few of the 'regressive' dangers that previously existed.
Yes, it's the old 'regressive' tax argument, but it's also common sense.
These ‘comic’ stereotypes, 'regressive' even in 1968, make the show seem not so much offensive as hopelessly dated.
Excessive clinging, sleeping/eating disorders, 'regressive' behavior, limits testing, manipulation, and wanting to contact parents are common reactions.
‘There would be a question in my mind as to whether or not it would be a 'regressive' step,’ said Ms Fennell.
Lastly, are we really preparing for developed world status, or are we on a 'regressive' path to under-developed status?
Respondents expressed grievances against the government for clawing back what they viewed as an excessive and 'regressive' tax on tobacco products and for their failure to redirect this income visibly towards those in need.
Here it should also be noted that it is wrong to depict one's religious community as more liberal and progressive and another community as more 'regressive' and backward.
There is a 'regressive' longing for the world of the perfectly nurtured child here, which is why speaking of the fallen psychiatrist and patient who act this out literally seems apt.
Whilst the first two involve 'regressive' analysis and synthesis, the third and fourth involve decompositional analysis and synthesis.
These survivors are deformed, 'regressive' , bestial, and held in check by a repressive dictatorship that combines the authority of church and state.
In the very next year, John of Gaunt used the last Parliament of Edward III's reign to institute the most 'regressive' tax ever witnessed in later medieval England.
Another blatantly 'regressive' tax system is the social security system.
If he realizes this goal, he will have succeeded in passing the most 'regressive' tax program in U.S. history.
A 1998 report described 12 children with inflammatory bowel disorders who developed 'regressive' conditions including autism.
But we shouldn't carry around an image of a company that is 'regressive' in its treatment of its workers.
Illicit substances can produce toxic effects on the brain and also reinforce 'regressive' behavior, a combination that may result in a personality disorder secondary to substance dependence.
Three of the states among the ten with the most 'regressive' taxes also made the list of those with the biggest deficits as a percentage of planned state spending.
They are 'regressive' , repressive individuals.
Erin and Brenna had gone through 'regressive' hypnosis to try and determine what exactly they had both seen.
It's an example of infantilism, a 'regressive' desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.
And this is 'regressive' autism; it's not from birth.
There may be genetic factors at work, but in the case of 'regressive' autism, the primary cause has to be intimately introduced; genetics are secondary.
This would be a 'regressive' step and could lead to a two-tier-system, with those who could afford getting the medicine of the doctor's choice doing so, whereas poorer patients might not.
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