backward
adverb
toward the back or rear.
backwardly
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a word derived from
backward.
Example Sentences
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On an even more depressing corner of Amazon TikTok, customers post videos not to backwardly celebrate drivers but just to shame them for delivering the package with less than the customer’s expected level of service.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
The Archbishop of York has said many people in England feel left behind by "metropolitan elites in London and the South East" and are "patronised as backwardly xenophobic".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2021
"We seem to be going full circle again, where in order to secure supply the steel manufacturers are backwardly integrating to own their own producing assets," Hughes said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 19, 2010
The fact delaying lengthy legal battles four times since have stalled the merger is an indication of what is backwardly wrong about U.S. railroads. $225,000 a Day.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet, sir, and yet, ’tis he that they call Crébiche, because like the crawfish advancing backwardly.
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable
