hidebound
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hidebound (ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | restricted by petty rules, a conservative attitude, etc |
| 2. | (of cattle, etc) having the skin closely attached to the flesh as a result of poor feeding |
| 3. | (of trees) having a very tight bark that impairs growth |
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Hidebound
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Example sentences
Others have been dissuaded from applying by hidebound teachers and careers advisers, who deter them from aspiring to such things.
The hidebound health-care systems of the rich world may resist new technologies even as poor countries leapfrog ahead.
Yesterday's visionaries and yesterday's hidebound traditionalists have this deficit in common.
And a lot of its buyers are hidebound truck guys, suspicious of change or fads.
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