Crossword-Solution: BACKWARDS 9 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

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Word Word Type Definition
Backwards adv. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride
backward.
Backwards adv. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the
arms backward.
Backwards adv. On the back, or with the back downward.
Backwards adv. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
Backwards adv. By way of reflection; reflexively.
Backwards adv. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to
shame, from religion to sin.
Backwards adv. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction;
contrarily; as, to read backwards.

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BACKWARDS anagram DRAWBACKS, SDRAWKCAB

We have 16 clues for the answer “BACKWARDS”

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How to look for nostalgia? 1 answer
back of 18 answers
in back of 22 answers
reversed 22 answers
Aft 23 answers
ABACK 28 answers
in reverse 37 answers
MOVE in reverse 38 answers
Revert 57 answers
Chaotic 59 answers
jumbled 59 answers
Untidy 77 answers
Behind 78 answers
muddled 78 answers
Scattered 79 answers
Backward 80 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BACKWARDS (5)

She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, “O most delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume!” The memory of a good deed lives.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Your uncle bought you some kind of a mechanical toy, a Turkish lady sitting on an ottoman and smoking a hookah, wasn’t it? And she turned her head backwards and forwards.” “Oh, yes! Wasn’t she splendid! I knew well enough I ought not to tell Uncle Joe I wanted it, for he had just come back from the saloon and was feeling good.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
The girl, who wore no riding-habit, looked around for a moment, as if to assure herself that all humanity was out of view, then dexterously dropped backwards flat upon the pony’s back, her head over its tail, her feet against its shoulder, and her eyes to the sky.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
When the King saw him, with a terrible groan He moved towards him, crying, “O my son What hast thou done? What ailed thee? What mischance Has reft thee of thy reason? O come forth, Come forth, my son; thy father supplicates.” But the son glared at him with tiger eyes, Spat in his face, and then, without a word, Drew his two-hilted sword and smote, but missed His father flying backwards.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Mel finally gave in and wrote the code, but he got the test backwards, and, when the sense switch was turned on, the program would cheat, winning every time.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with BACKWARDS (3)

You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.
Lisa Kleypas Married By Morning
I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power, perhaps even concern. That the truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.
Col. Thomas Aspinwall
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1991).