hidebound
Example Sentences
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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
There was a time when Olympians weren’t allowed to receive any money, when the International Olympic Committee clung to a hidebound notion of amateurism.
From Los Angeles Times
Egyptian-backed young officers in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, staged a coup in 1962 against a hidebound theocratic leader who had long kept the country in a state of isolation.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
