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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bit backward looking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a perspective or attitude that is focused on the past rather than the present or future.
Example: "While the proposal has some merit, it feels a bit backward looking and doesn't address the current challenges we face."
Alternatives: "somewhat nostalgic" or "a little retrogressive".
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Knighthoods for four cabinet ministers seems odd and a bit backward looking.
"We went around the houses," Stewart said, "with quite a lot of punning on the word 'out', but the feedback was that it was a bit antiquated, a bit backward looking".
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But it also stands for a reaction to modernity, he said: "One could say it's a vision a bit backward-looking, but it's also, I think, a battle of today, to try to safeguard what gives us pleasure and health".
That makes America look a bit backward.
You've got it a bit backward.
He was a bit backward in coming forward, may I say, in saying what he meant.
Our culture's insistence on authentic local color is simultaneously logical and a bit backward.
"It's a backward looking report".
Android, by contrast, is a backward looking architecture.
A greedy algorithm is backward looking.
"Rankings are all backward looking.
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