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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

Of England's group of brilliant, middleaged, aristocratic women writers, whose leading light is Virginia Woolf, six-foot Poet Edith Sitwell is the most backwardly brilliant of them all.

From Time Magazine Archive

And does he thinke so backwardly of me now, That Ile requite it last?

From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William