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Examples
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Anyone who pointed out that he lacked relevant experience, never having managed in England or at international level, was labelled a luddite Little Englander.
House of Dumb 2010
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Did I really just get called a luddite by a guy who wants to roll economic policy back to the child labor days?
Buffalo Pundit 2009
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Before you accuse me of being a "luddite," let me tell you I get it.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: An Open Letter to @Ev and @Biz 2010
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Before you accuse me of being a "luddite," let me tell you I get it.
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But aside from the public relations issues that come with being branded a "luddite," there are real dollars and cents issues at play, as well.
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With my husband's dismissal of the idea as "luddite", I decided to go to my in-laws weekly family lunch instead.
Kirsten Dirksen: Barter Markets: Can Trading Beef for a Backpack Keep Consumption in Check? 2009
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Characterising a movement that has a massive web presence including multiple Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Youtube accounts as "luddite" does very little for your credibility as "someone who understands what words actually mean".
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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Abbott, a "luddite" for appearing to have nothing to do with his party's technology policies, on a day in which the Canberra press gallery also criticised the Opposition Leader on the issue.
ARN Daily 2010
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In popular parlance, a "luddite" is a person who despises or fears things that are designated technology.
amor mundi 2009
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This doesn't drastically change the Sony PRS v. Kindle dynamic, it could help Sony's readers appeal to a certain special kind of luddite: the one who is somehow fine with eBooks, but for whom contemporary fiction and fancy "Whispernet" technologies, "nice screens" and
Gizmodo 2009
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word luddite
is there a word that means "anti cell phone"?
January 26, 2007
nicsims commented on the word luddite
-Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
-One who opposes technical or technological change.
September 17, 2007
Prolagus commented on the word luddite
@ AbraxasZugzwang:
The word is celluddite, of course.
April 25, 2008
nycanthro commented on the word luddite
Then there's Culluluddite, for those who fiercely believe cellulite diminishes attractiveness.
March 5, 2009