Backwards in a sentence as an adverb

Lots of beginners use Google in a backwards sort of way, having been trained to "look for the solution.

Making it flat now allows you to build up, where past versions made you go backwards first, then build the theme the way you wanted.

But I am not going to bend over backwards to accommodate these laggards and dinosaurs refusal to pay attention to the world we live in.

The "backwards compatibility" crowd lost out to the "breaking changes" crowd, which hastened the switch to Web-based applications.

There were mistakes made on both sides, but in the end I bent over backwards to accomodate them and as soon as YC was over and they could say they were YC founders they bailed.

If you feel like backwards compatibility is a really important feature then whether you want to admit it or not, you probably would be happy as a Microsoft customer.

It's almost bizarre to assume that a company that bends over backwards to make people happy and productive at work is actually some kind of evil plot that would "make you go absolutely bonkers.

* The API designer needed to retain backwards compatibility so it had to resort to putting 3rd party app specific code in the API implementation.

The author might consider using Microsoft products because they are obsessive about providing backwards compatibility.

What's ridiculous about everybody bending over backwards for the Netflix usecase is that Hollywood isn't letting Netflix have the content anyway because they want to control and destroy yet another medium.

Great binary backwards compatibility, and really good toolkit compatibility.

PSD was never intended to be a data interchange format: it is the serialization format of a single program that has more individual unrelated features that actual people rely on than almost any other piece of software and has maintained striking amounts of backwards compatibility and almost unbroken forwards compatibility during its over two decades of existence.

Backwards definitions

adverb

at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car"

See also: back backward rearward rearwards

adverb

in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"

See also: backward