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antediluvian

adjective as in out-of-date; prehistoric

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It’s too much to expect these people to care about the lives that won’t be saved because of their antediluvian attitudes toward modern science.

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As my colleague Amanda Marcotte points out, Johnson is an antediluvian, patriarchal, misogynist with all that that implies and he has devoted his life to re-making America into an explicitly Christian fundamentalist state.

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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.

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

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

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