LUDDITE


Meaning of LUDDITE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At very least, however, the Luddites presented the government with a problem of order of a magnitude hardly reached since.

I suspected that deep down he was a Luddite who secretly preferred old-fashioned conventional fences.

In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs.

The author is not a Luddite .

The campaign says that unlike most recipients of the award, the professor took it badly, accusing organisers of being Luddites.

The machine-breaking resistance of the Luddites against these changes was only one sign of the growing class conflicts to come.

There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.

They are Luddites well over a century before the term was coined.

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