anachronous
Example Sentences
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This tumult underlies some of the monarchy’s appeal, however anachronous the institution.
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2022
Unfortunately, much of the way we talk about our interests in our personal data relies on anachronous analogies to the physical world.
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2013
This superstition of witchcraft has here been strong in all eras, but it is at last becoming extinct; cretinism, as anachronous and as horrible,—a fact, not a superstition,—remains unaccounted for and unlessened.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
The bill was, however, returned “Ignoramus,” and the use of the name was probably anachronous.
From Captain Richard Ingle The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel," 1642-1653 by Ingle, Edward
I like them to stalk, like the ghosts that they are—our modern passioning seems a bit anachronous in them.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
