backwardness

Example Sentences

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Boston's Backwardness Sir: As a student, I spent twelve stultifying years in that city's school system.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was heightned by an unaccountable Backwardness in the People of the jerseys & Pennsylvania to defend their Country and crush their Enemies when I am satisfied it was in their Power to do it.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo

Your Backwardness leads me to apprehend there has something happend which would be disagreable to me to hear.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo

Backwardness in school instruction is significant only when it coincides with regular attendance.

From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred