Sentence example with the word 'backwardness'

backwardness

Definition n. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

Last update: July 30, 2015


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As early as 1553 he had ceased to trust Sylvester and Adashev, owing to their extraordinary backwardness in supporting the claims of his infant son to the throne while he himself lay at the point of death.   [Please select]

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The backwardness of the indigenous life of Africa shows how an equatorial position retards evolution.   [Please select]

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I thought that he was going to remonstrate with me for my backwardness.   [Please select]

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The gentleman, being placed next to me by the chance of our billets, lost no time in opening the conversation, a step which my rustic backwardness would long have delayed.   [Please select]

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Delay in this change, in this putting aside of the infantile habit of body, is commonly associated with a corresponding backwardness in the mental development.   [Please select]

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