anachronism

Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.

These anachronisms and inequities are further exacerbated by the unaccountable malefactors of the wealthiest classes, who are able to thwart any fundamental reforms that might weaken the popular urge for a radical or totalitarian solution.

Israel is in some ways an anachronism in that 20th-century trajectory.

Some people do not get the Lions and call it an anachronism and an unimportant exhibition.

Andy Cooke, chief inspector of constabulary, said the current police funding formula was "an anachronism".