hidebound
Example Sentences
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Sanitary Commission was paid for by contributions from the public; it was also, at first, opposed by the hidebound Army Medical Department.
An industry as hidebound as this one is going to need time to retool and figure out ways to address shifting consumer tastes.
The hidebound company, overly reliant on mainframe computers, had been out-hustled by nimbler makers of desktop computers and software.
And away from it, he has set out to reshape the hidebound culture of English cricket to suit the 2020s.
The agency was just like the Saginaw he’d run from, Dudek said: an insular, hidebound place where everyone knew everyone and they all thought innovation would cost them their jobs.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
