technophobic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- technophobically adverb
Example Sentences
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My inner eye still sees him enthroned in his leather easy chair, leaning forward to drive home a fascinating thought about the role of The Great War in technophobic, anti-SF story lines.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2022
One, starring 97-year-old Bill Hayes and his 79-year-old wife, Susan Seaforth Hayes, was squarely aimed at older, technophobic viewers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022
The franchise’s resurgence is a familiar story, beginning when Wirtz took over from his technophobic father and put home games on television around the same time Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane arrived.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2015
“Nevertheless,” says Miller, “each year brings a surprising number of people who had been thought technophobic into the digital embrace, and we should not make assumptions.”
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2014
Sam and Joe had become the schools roaming tech support, a rapidly spreading phenomenon among geeks as hard-pressed and technophobic school districts turned to their onetime social outcasts to help run their computer systems.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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