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backwards
adverb as in back; backward
Weak matches
adverb as in reverse to the usual way
Example Sentences
"We feel we are going backwards -- we should never go backwards."
“I’ll bend him over backwards, give him something to believe in,” she sings.
She said the move was a "real step backwards" and that a complainer's right to privacy must be considered as well as the right to a fair trial.
One whistleblower told a newspaper last year that Ofsted was "bending over backwards" to make inspections less stressful - at pupils' expense.
But when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, she was thrust into a different and, as she describes it, “really backwards” technological world.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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