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been backward
adjective
Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
Exact(9)
Alan Herson, who took over the case, acknowledges that the strategy may have been backward.
In the process, I realized that my basic concept of how to sing had been backward.
Guardian writers have never been backward in recommending their own favourites.
In the last two weeks anonymous Likud officials have not been backward in coming forward to denounce their own party leader's campaign, most recently in Haaretz on Friday.
However, Russia and an awful lot of the former Soviet states have been backward in their tolerance of abuse of black athletes, particularly soccer players.
Progress against other infectious diseases has been more variable: cases of dengue fever, for example, have increased.In education, one of the areas in which Brazil has long been backward, progress has been made.
Similar(51)
Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking.
Banks' risk models have been backward-looking, so no time appeared safer than the moment before the bubble burst.
Only coal, the fundamental industry of all, has been backward--half a century behind the rest.
This is backward.
That's backward.
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