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Meanings of atavistic in English

Characteristic of an atavist.

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Examples for "throwback"
Examples for "throwback"
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The format is new, sure, but the experience itself is a throwback.
Wired
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A; I think there are a lot of throwback elements to it.
Reuters
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Luke Donald's diamond-patterned sleeveless jumpers are a throwback to older fashion days.
The Irish Times
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Frankie The Heartstrings are a throwback to a different era of indie-pop.
The Irish Times
5
Health and Self A nonjudgmental gym, Portuguese soap, and a throwback manicure.
NY Magazine
Usage of atavistic in English
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Home birth: unbridled agony promoted by macho women and their atavistic midwives.
The Guardian
2
One race is lively and progressive, the other is sluggish and atavistic.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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Something atavistic in the Potteries calls out to me from my past.
The Guardian
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Murk felt the tiny hairs of his forearms straightening in atavistic fear.
Blood and Bone
5
And besides, I was overcome by an atavistic longing to do chores.
The Bent Twig
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Their religion, atavistic and rigid, insists on ritual slaughter and male circumcision.
The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism
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So are these brutal, atavistic wars in Europe really almost over?
The new yorker
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But there is something atavistic in me; I hark back to unconstitutional monarchs.
The World Set Free
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The world needs to bring down the curtain on his atavistic horror show.
The new yorker
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And yet the motives which we have enumerated are plainly atavistic and pathological.
Outspoken Essays
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She looked at the dead animal and acknowledged an atavistic gratification.
Genellan: planetfall
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The answer must surely lie in their primitive and atavistic religion.
The Guardian
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She told herself that there was indeed something atavistic about it.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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He's, so to speak, atavistic; moved by instincts, like the Indians and animals.
The Lure of the North
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The gunslinger felt an atavistic crawl in his intestines and privates.
The gunslinger
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It is perhaps the most atavistic of white South African fears.
The Guardian
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