Crossword-Solution: LUDDITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Luddite | n. | One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. |
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| LUDDITE | anagram | DILUTED |
We have 19 clues for the answer “LUDDITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Unlikely smartphone user | 1 answer |
| Unlikely Apple Store shopper | 1 answer |
| ENGLISH artisan who raised riots for destruction of machinery (hist.) | 1 answer |
| One opposed to technology | 1 answer |
| One who longs for the good old days, perhaps | 1 answer |
| One who still has a flip phone, say | 1 answer |
| Technophobe | 1 answer |
| Opponent of technological innovation | 1 answer |
| Opposer of mechanisation | 1 answer |
| Opposite of an early adopter | 1 answer |
| PERSON seeking to obstruct progress | 1 answer |
| Person opposed to introduction of machinery | 1 answer |
| Shunner of new technology | 1 answer |
| Technology hater | 1 answer |
| Opponent of new technology | 2 answers |
| Opponent of progress | 2 answers |
| Rioter | 4 answers |
| A HATER OF PEOPLE | 11 answers |
| ANY OPPONENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS | 11 answers |
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Sentences with LUDDITE (5)
This was caused by the Luddite outrages, which were carried on in the most systematic manner, and on the largest scale in Nottingham and the adjoining counties.
Henty is one of our most successful writers of historical tales."--_Scotsman._ * * * * * =Through the Fray:= A Story of the Luddite Riots.
Then arose Luddite mobs, meal mobs, farm riots, riots everywhere; Captain Swing and his rickburners, Peterloo "massacres," Bristol conflagrations, and all the ugly sights and rumours which made young lads, thirty or forty years ago, believe (and not so wrongly) that "the masses" were their natural enemies, and that they might have to fight, any year, or any day, for the safety of their property and the honour of their sisters.
The troubles which occurred in various parts of the country were known as the Luddite Riots, and the secret body which organized them was called King or General Lud.
The neighbourhood of Huddersfield was the centre of the Luddite outbreak, when a large number of persons engaged in the cloth manufacture, conceiving that they were injured by the use of certain inventions for dressing cloth, banded together, traversed the country at night, searching for and carrying off fire-arms, and attacking and destroying the manufactories of persons supposed to use the obnoxious machines.
Quotes with LUDDITE (3)
I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren’t so different after all.
The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at hom…
I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsolete” hand-loom weaver, the “utopian” artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (2000–2023).