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Antonyms for back-number


Grammar : Adj



Definition of back-number

  • As in behind the times : adj not current
  • As in old hat : adj overfamiliar
Example sentences :
  • He had judged Dunwoodie old, back-number, living in the past.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • No scoutin' around for back-number restaurants, as I'd planned at first.
  • Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford
  • I had never even seen a bomb before, and always associated them with the playful humor of the now back-number anarchist.
  • Extract from : « Fighting the Boche Underground » by Harry Davis Trounce
  • He understands the business as none of us back-number, old-fashioned ones do; he took hold and shook some life into it.
  • Extract from : « The Flying Mercury » by Eleanor M. Ingram
  • He smiled wanly and asked for his mail, which consisted only of a pile of back-number copies of a newspaper.
  • Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
  • I wish tasteless, conventional, and machine-made architecture were as much of a "back-number" in England as it is here.
  • Extract from : « America To-day, Observations and Reflections » by William Archer
  • It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably.
  • Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
  • There were three for Marcia, and one—in old Thompson's back-number copperplate—for Dudley.
  • Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
  • Those men haven't got any use for a back-number old place like this.
  • Extract from : « The Copy-Cat and Other Stories » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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