Retrograde

The readiest support for planets' having confocal orbits is their sometimes retrograde motion.

Venus rotates slowly on its axis in a clockwise direction, which is referred to as a "retrograde" rotation because it is the opposite of the seven other planets.

Venus has a retrograde rotation which means it rotates on its axis in the opposite direction from the Earth's rotation. This causes the Sun to rise in the west and move eastward across the sky.

Due to Triton's retrograde orbit, its density, and its composition, astronomers theorize that Triton was not originally a satellite of Neptune, but was captured by Neptune's gravitational pull, forcing it into an orbit around the planet.

Seventeen of the moons have a retrograde orbit, meaning they orbit in the opposite direction as Saturn and its other moons.

The US was defeated by the retrograde group of the Taliban.

retrograde ideas, morals, etc.

Such retrograde people still exist, resisting modernity, dragging their feet.

[…] in the form of the pussyfooted Alexis Smith. While referring to [Cole] Porter's 1946 film (alleged) biography, Night and Day, she mentions there were "certain aspects of the story which at that time they could not do." Was "certain aspects" a euphemism for gay? Smith's misplaced politeness here is truly retrograde.

In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire: / And we beseech you, bend you to remain