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"on backwards" is a correct and acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe when something is not in its usual or expected position, direction, order, or sequence. For example: "The chairs were on backwards, which made it difficult to sit in them."
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Here is lead singer Michael Stipe, hiding in a large overcoat, his hair covered by a drooping baseball cap put on backwards.
Put the second one on backwards.
Stand tall, speak firmly, and hope no one notices your shirt's on backwards.
His arms, body, and head had not been positioned carefully in the coffin, and one of his undershirts had been put on backwards.
He found one of my mesh baseball caps and put it on backwards.
In the end you are left with one chain instead of two, and you put the clutch on backwards so that the chain lines up with the sprocket.
My pantsuit's on backwards.
They put it on backwards.
Sometimes they get the shackles on backwards.
Another is getting the t-shirt on backwards.
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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has pledged to take on "backwards-looking politics", as he made the case for membership of the EU in a speech.
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