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synonyms for backseat driving

  • conflict
  • intervention
  • intrusion
  • obstruction
  • tampering
  • arrest
  • background
  • barring
  • blocking
  • choking
  • hindrance
  • interposition
  • meddlesomeness
  • opposition
  • prying
  • resistance
  • retardation
  • barging in
  • checking
  • clashing
  • clogging
  • hampering
  • intermeddling
  • tackling
  • trespassing
On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to backseat driving, such as: conflict, intervention, intrusion, obstruction, tampering, and arrest.

antonyms for backseat driving

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  • encouragement
  • aid
  • assistance
  • help
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How to use backseat driving in a sentence

People are busy ballooning or driving; shooting like stars along railroads; or migrating like swallows or wild-geese.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
On the state-coach went, down the steep, driving the mules madly before it.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD
I think that there has been neglect and laxity in the matter of not driving out the Japanese.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUS
Once he suddenly found himself in the road driving a small flock of goats, whose he knew not, nor whence he got them.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
Accordingly, she had the boys to hitch a team to a buggy and took him driving over the great estate.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
Felipe glanced at the horses, then driving his spurs deep into his horse's sides, galloped after them.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
The driving power that forced an older self upon her had weakened before the steadfast love he bore her.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Should he hire a horse and kill the animal by rash driving, he would be liable for its value.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
A tarpaulin stretched from wheel to wheel of the wagon shut out the driving rain that fled in sheets before the whooping wind.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
This particular engine was for driving machinery in a cannon manufactory.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICK
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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