backward

"It has to be a given, because if you don't show up with that frame of mind you're on the backward step straight away," he added.

The evening breeze blows through the cracked hatch and tries to push me backward—right back to doing nothing in my best friend’s basement.

It was all quite backward and unpleasant, but that was how the Babushkinov household ran.

Or did she march bravely into her new home without a backward glance?

Lady Constance tiptoed backward in horror until her back was pressed flat against the wall.