Translations for „antediluvian“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

antediluvian [ˌæntɪdɪˈlu:vɪən, Am -t̬ɪdə-] ADJ a. fig

antediluvian

допото́пный

antediluvian

старомо́дный

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Too many of the old guard privately condoned antediluvian beliefs that "boys will be boys" and upheld white male solidarity.

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The result of that antediluvian practice is thousands of undocumented deaths across the country.

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This denial further elides the problem by shrouding it in a cocoon of antediluvian peculiarity when, really, contemporary examples abound.

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This sort of archaic, antediluvian feel is ingrained in its cement.

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The church itself was an antediluvian hunch of masonry and desiccated beams protruding from the walls.

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In the antediluvian days of my childhood, an optimistic politician decided to take them on.

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On the walls hang the kind of antediluvian tools horror films are made for.

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Price's interpretation of the evidence was that the geological record does not prove succession of ages, but rather shows a taxonomic series representing different but contemporaneous zones of antediluvian life.

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But as a business proposition it was still sort of antediluvian, depending on the same public funding and listener-loyalty pledge drives.

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And there are those who think of the whole business of podium girls as a little antediluvian.

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