Crossword-Solution: BACKWARDNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backwardness | n. | The state of being backward. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “BACKWARDNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| SSEN | 1 answer |
| HIGH time | 58 answers |
| Immaturity | 72 answers |
| Hindrance | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKWARDNESS (5)
Macedonia's geographical isolation, technological backwardness, and political instability place it far down the list of countries of interest to Western investors.
Call your master instantly.” “Nay, please your worship,” answered the man, in much perplexity, but with a backwardness that strikingly indicated the hard and severe character of Colonel Pyncheon’s domestic rule; “my master’s orders were exceeding strict; and, as your worship knows, he permits of no discretion in the obedience of those who owe him service.
Macedonia's geographical isolation, technological backwardness, and potential political instability place it far down the list of countries of interest to Western investors.
You mean, I said, those gentlemen who tease and torture the strings and rack them on the pegs of the instrument: might carry on the metaphor and speak after their manner of the blows which the plectrum gives, and make accusations against the strings, both of backwardness and forwardness to sound; but this would be tedious, and therefore I will only say that these are not the men, and that I am referring to the Pythagoreans, of whom I was just now proposing to enquire about harmony.
Willoughby’s behaviour in taking leave of them, his embarrassment, and affectation of cheerfulness, and, above all, his unwillingness to accept her mother’s invitation, a backwardness so unlike a lover, so unlike himself, greatly disturbed her.
Quotes with BACKWARDNESS (3)
Having been privileged to consult and speak in parliaments and to the governments of some of the leading countries in the world, it would be a waste if I don’t contribute my quota and do my best to help rescue my continent from that backwardness and darkness that Africa is largely agonizing in at present.
This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? The ugliness of American decoration, American entertainment, American literature - is not t…
Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or more were effaced, and there he was, the alert and predatory sub-human, further from what she believed man should be like than the naked savage, because the savage was tractable, while this creature, wearing the armor of his own rigid barbaric culture, consciously defied progress. And that was what Stenham saw, too; to him the boy was a perfect symbol of human backwardness, and ex…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1973).