antediluvian

Example Sentences

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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.

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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