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luddite::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister |
luddite::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | working man, working person, workingman, workman |
Examples of luddite
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I just worry that a touchscreen will cause the Kindle to ditch its luddite charm.
From the techcrunch.com
I think it's luddite and refusenik not to embrace where your readers are going.
From the guardian.co.uk
Let's hope the luddite consumers of the western world don't try to stop it.
From the economist.com
Maybe when all of the ignorant luddite greens pipe down then saner minds will prevail?
From the ecocentric.blogs.time.com
I imagine there was similar luddite nonsense spouted the first time someone drew a map.
From the guardian.co.uk
I'm somewhere in between, as I guess everyone probably is, but I'm definitely not a luddite.
From the guardian.co.uk
It has a number of advantages over dowsing or other luddite methods for finding hidden stuff.
From the nytimes.com
The way she speaks of her career in technology would make even a luddite consider retraining.
From the independent.co.uk
Call me a luddite, but unless I move to Tokyo sometime soon, I'll keep my money in my wallet.
From the techcrunch.com
- Any opponent of technological progress
- One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
- The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the nineteenth century who protested - often by destroying mechanised looms - against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt was leaving them without work and changing their way of life. ...
- Luddite is the an EP by the Experimental band Grotus.
- Any of a group of early 19th century English textile workers who destroyed machinery because it would harm their livelihood; Someone who opposes technological change
- (Luddites) A group in England that smashed some of the early automated looms as a protest against mechanical innovation and the related threat to their jobs.
- (LUDDITES) As technology began to transform the early 19th century workplace, workers in Britain initiated random attacks in which they destroyed the machinery of the developing industrial order and destroyed poorly manufactured and shoddy goods. ...
- (Luddites) Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, KKK, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, Liberals, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs.
- (Luddites) English craftsmen and other workers in the northern and Midlands counties who engaged in destroying textile machinery (1811-13), so called because their manifestos and handbills were sometimes signed 'Ned Ludd' or 'General Ludd'. ...
