Any opponent of technological progress

Usage examples of luddite.

The pilgrim had been sitting back in the shadows, but one Luddite noticed him and urged him to join the other women.

The pilgrim hit him just below his ribcage, and the Luddite grunted and doubled up.

The Luddite sat down heavily, and his fellow Luddites broke into new screams of laughter.

The stricken Luddite slowly began to get to his feet, holding his stomach and backing away.

Later, as the talking died away, the pilgrim turned to the Luddite beside him.

The Luddite smelled of smoke and grease and sweat, but the pilgrim was beginning to get accustomed to it.

In the next few days, the pilgrim became a part of Luddite life on the move.

Sometimes the minstrel would sing of old glories or glories yet to come, and the blood would dance within each Luddite until he was compelled to get up and stomp around the dying fire as the minstrel chanted, making guttural sounds and whoops of other noise.

But they were a subdued group good for little more than doing what the Luddites told them to do, gathering wood for fire, cooking meals, going with the Luddite who selected them to his blanket for the night.

A group of young Luddite men had gathered around the discussion, drawn by the straining voices.

I was going to college in Fairbanks and there was a pretty big Luddite presence on campus.

When I was in high school I discovered the Luddite movement and tried to get them interested, but it was hopeless.

Worldwide, it had more than two hundred Luddite scientists working for it.

Its deadliest opponent had been within the grasp of his Luddite helpers and had escaped!

Death, a Luddite ally, who was in charge of them, reported that this was a typical, but by no means universal, human response to seeing family members tortured.