Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
backward-looking
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this is backward-looking stuff from another era.
▪ Even if Maastricht is ratified intact, the past four months have made it seem backward-looking, or even irrelevant.
▪ In 1890 all foreign ministries had been, to varying extents, tradition-bound and backward-looking.
▪ Some of its politicians were backward-looking in that their major objectives were to remedy inter-war problems.
▪ The later Victorian undertakers were arguably the most backward-looking tradesmen of their day.
▪ The titles of many of the talks seem curiously backward-looking, particularly compared with the straight forward approach of the Berlin programme.
▪ The whole scene represented by these extensive remains is determinedly backward-looking and insular.
▪ This gives intentional explanations a forward-looking quality which contrasts with the backward-looking quality of empirical explanations.
Usage examples of "backward-looking".
False teeth of the very falsest kind, a backward-looking chin and I think he cuts his own hair.