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backwards

adverb as in back; backward

adverb as in reverse to the usual way

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This sort of seems like a backwards question to me,” Rogers said.

They were crushed in a general election and have gone backwards since.

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Mobile phone footage was also played to the court which showed one of the girls pull his glasses off his face, then one punched him and he fell backwards.

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But since a legal immigrant once saw a doctor, the press is expected to bend over backwards to adjudicate whether one is a liar just because one is lying about 99% of the story.

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So if “Peacemaker” viewers were puzzled as to how a backwards, murderous bigot like Earth Prime Auggie could manifest as a doting father and an affluent man in a nearly identical world, now we know.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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