Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a backward direction.
- Unwillingly; reluctantly; aversely; perversely; ill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
- adverb obsolete Perversely; ill.
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- adverb In a backward direction.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not because he seemed guilty or because he kind of backwardly admitted that more accusations could be coming they're false, too!
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Not because he seemed guilty or because he kind of backwardly admitted that more accusations could be coming they're false, too!
Herman Cain and the third-person presser | Ana Marie Cox 2011
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The very involvement of backwardly integrating customers like Arcelor and government-backed investors like Citic is itself a sign of how intense the scramble for coal has become.
Peabody Lights Up Coal M&A Liam Denning 2011
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She, in her own way, loathes this backwardly still conservative leaning country as much as the men who hijacked those planes.
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And, it's the reason we find such strange "hacks" in the biological world, too---everything from sickle-cell anemia to ant-attacking fungi to our own backwardly-built retinas, which are inferior to some mollusc and avian retinas.
Teach the Controversy James F. McGrath 2008
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McCain just seem really backwardly looking I think in this debate and that I score for Barack, it's future versus the past, I think we saw who was in the future or who is in the past.
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The glass homophobic ceilings, built by the backwardly religious or the double-speaking politicians of any party, won't break unless they're pushed.
Jesse Helms, now deceased, the role model for Sally Kern? 2008
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Sadly, any better, systemic, viable and immediate option is nil, for the backwardly-complicit Same-Old's shill McCain wants us back in the ... #39; 50's (1850's).
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Harvey Dent, of course, backwardly referencing his future transformation into super-villain "Two-Face."
New ‘Dark Knight’ Trailer Screened To Jubilant Fans At NY Comic Con » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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But in its policy toward its foes and allies, it acted backwardly -- in classic 1903 imperialist mode.
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