adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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hidebound bureaucrats
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It was predictable that the medical establishment, so hidebound and reactionary, would reject Dr Stone's ideas.
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The hidebound attitudes of Russia's powerful aristocracy made any kind of progress impossible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Football is often hidebound by facts.
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It provides the leaders of an organization with a convenient rationale for their hidebound maintenance-oriented policies.
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Life was not hidebound by rules or convention.
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The composers now working there have brought no preconceptions or hidebound conventions.
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Their class system was hidebound , their rulers unjustifiably smug, their attitude to rising talent blinkered.
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There are a lot of missing links between design and product development because of manufacturing's hidebound attitude.
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They succeeded for a time-but at a cost for the hidebound Congress.
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Whether the conservative, hidebound publishing establishment will treat such works with the seriousness they deserve is of course another matter.