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behindhand

How to use behindhand in a sentence

They open a winter school, where students who are behindhand may make up deficiencies.

So Claude Haton, who is rarely behindhand in such matters, makes the Protestants lose fifteen thousand or sixteen thousand men.

I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behindhand in their politics.

And their assembled friends being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily.

I turn out with alacrity, and am not behindhand in dressing; besides, I have only to put on my flannels.

Epimetheus marks this battery on his Plan; and is wise behindhand, at a cheap rate.

My studies have lately kept me away from the track of my husband's researches, and I feel behindhand in my wifely sympathies.

I have constantly observed, that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behindhand in their politics.

Nor were the men from the Danish ships behindhand in that matter, for they too would welcome Lodbrok's friends.

Though Eve was the first to taste the apple, Adam had no intention of being behindhand.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985