without (so much as) a backward glance
backward
adverb
mainly USuk /ˈbæk.wəd/ us /ˈbæk.wɚd/
→ backwardsmainly UK向后

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Backwards, sideways and back and forth
anticlockwise
back and forthidiom
back to frontphrase
backwardly
backwards
laterad
lateral
laterally
libration
pull
reverse
round
saw
stand
step aside
swept-back
take someone aside
there and backidiom
to and fro
wrong

backward | American Dictionary

backward
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈbæk·wərd/(alsobackwards, us/ˈbæk·wərdz/)

backwardadverb[not gradable] (TOWARD THE BACK)

toward the direction that is opposite to the one in which you are facing or opposite to the usual direction:
He took a step backward.
He began counting backward: "Ten, nine, eight . . ."
She was skating around the rink, backward and forward.
backward
adjective
us/ˈbæk·wərd/

backwardadjective (TOWARD THE BACK)

[ not gradable ]
directed toward the back or in the direction that is opposite to the one in which you are facing:
He did a terrific backward somersault.

backwardadjective (NOT DEVELOPED)

not developed, or not modern or advanced:
The state needs to reform its backward election laws.

Examples of backward

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The second solution turns forward jumps into backward jumps by generating a single block before the child's loop with a jump-hole.
Convergence of backward economies with richer ones seems to be conditional on human capital formation.
One problem is that both methods are necessarily backward-looking (because we can't observe the future) but in different ways.
The issues raised in this chapter are uniqueness, coreference, backward pronominalization and donkey anaphora.
If the speaker requests a slide change within half a second, the slide is not pre-rendered, because the speaker is likely stepping backward through slides.
Several different gaits were implemented16 (quadruped crawl forward, backward, side walk to the left, to the right, turning motion, motion over inclination, motion over stairs).
The whole machine can move forward or backward.
On the other hand, the energy modulation in the linear regime is described by the difference between the forward and backward density waves.
The forward and backward density waves at l j have the same intensity and sign.
The eigenvalues and eigenvector s are those of one dimensional compressible fluid dynamics, namely the forward and backward sound waves and contact discontinuity solutions.
Interactions of group by forward versus backward masking were not significant, suggesting that deficits in forward and backward masking were comparable.
In fact, a human-like motion requires that right arm moves forward while right leg moves backward and similarly for the other leg and arm.
As in the preceding section, the forward-looking solutions of transition paths are computed backward, starting from the last period of the transition. 15.
On a backward-looking basis, real rates still remained negative but, depending on estimation methods, rose sharply forward-looking.
First, the augmented ranking rule points to interesting new directions in understanding backward anaphora.
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