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

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

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

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

From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred