atavist

Your smug authorship style is intended to impart upon me that you know it all, I am just an atavist fool.

Discourse.net: Minimal Human Decency Abridged 2009

Conservatives are to busy going to work and making sinful profits to spend time at a conference to learn how to become a better online atavist.

Liberal bloggers admit conservatives have upper hand on Twitter 2009

"It's a mistake to think that privacy is an individualist or atavist right," Rotenberg said.

Brave New Era for Privacy Fight 2005

An atavist of the days of blind chivalry he was, a knight errant in the somber clothes of a fanatic.

The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

"It's a mistake to think that privacy is an individualist or atavist right," Rotenberg said.

Brave New Era for Privacy Fight 2005

He could be an atavist, a victim of unconscious regression.

Strange Alliance Bryce Walton 1953

It puts to death with the same ruthless equality the prophet and the atavist.

The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

Of two hundred seeds one became a blue atavist, or rather vicinist, while all others remained true to the white type.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

[2] Relating to old or established pattern; habitual, ingrained [3] (as a noun) an atavist is a genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations (see Wikipedia entry for a more detailed explanation).

Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed 2009

But Jesse Helms was so rooted in his atavist traditions, he chose to remain true to his misogyny rather than pose for cameras with faux female golfing partners.

NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias 2009