antediluvian

Example Sentences

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The rituals were only the start of 10 days of ceremony that will strike some as charming and others as hopelessly antediluvian.

From New York Times

Of all the units that measure all the things, Scoville heat units have got to be the most antediluvian.

From Washington Post

But the script forces antediluvian clichés on some of the grown-up female characters.

From New York Times

Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator.

From Seattle Times

The view that Avery worked for decades to achieve a final blast of brilliance seems as antediluvian as the idea that he worked alone in a style that overpowered his wife’s work.

From New York Times