Antediluvian

The doctor armed himself, and held himself in readiness to fire upon an animal which, by its dimensions, recalled the antediluvian quadrupeds. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

Parker also complains that British (military) ambulances are "antediluvian" and "reveals" that the laboratory at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, which is used to match blood and test samples, had to close between 11.30am and 3.30pm because the air-conditioning system could not keep the temperature below 97F (36C). ❋ Richard (2007)

Sally Keeble, MP for Northampton North, thought the ban epitomised  'the complete nonsense of an institution that won't move on', and Barbara Follett, MP for Stevenage, talked of 'antediluvian' attitudes. ❋ Bothroyd, Betty (1988)

"Antiquites Celtiques," published in 1847, M. Boucher de Perthes styled these older tools "antediluvian," because they came from the lowest beds of a series of ancient alluvial strata bordering the valley of the Somme, which geologists had termed "diluvium." ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)

That way, they would have found out what kind of antediluvian throwback they hve admitted to the EU. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He complains that merchants in Pasadena are "antediluvian" when it comes to the Internet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When Dewi Morris uses the word "antediluvian" you know you've got a problem ❋ Unknown (2008)

"antediluvian" shape of the bat -- no paddings on the legs. ❋ Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald (1879)

"antediluvian," and for startling originality in his views as well as fearlessness in expressing them. ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)

"antediluvian" in their turn; are ready also to climb the scaffold - poles always to be found somewhere about the great church, or dive along the odd, secret passages of the old builders, with quite learned explanations (being proud of, and therefore painstaking about, the place) of architectural periods, of Gothic "late" and ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

But then, one might expect this kind of antediluvian banter from someone who writes, too, that "Online media boosters often speak of establishment authority as a vestige of the media Dark Ages. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And to establish some historical context for the '70s, you're forced back to the antediluvian '30s. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2011)

In Israel, much of the terrain outside her cities is rocky and sere, antediluvian rubble baking in the sun, crisp brush clinging to crags in stone walls. ❋ Steven Weber (2011)

In 1991, the Michigan Court of Appeals, in passing, called the statute an “antediluvian felon [y].” ❋ Unknown (2010)

The antediluvian political culture of Coburn and his peers, for all its roots in the race-baiting “Southern strategy” of the Nixon era, is actually of a more recent vintage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The clear implication… The antediluvian man-beast now lost any of Mo's sympathy. ❋ Benjamin Matvey (2012)

In a “borderless world,” the idea of nation-states going to war seemed positively antediluvian. ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)

From the movement “What the Rocks Tell Me” to “What Love Tells Me,” from the first awakening of antediluvian life to the final exultant moments of this huge work, Mahler hoped that “nature in its totality may ring and resound.” ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)

They argued that their [equipment] was antediluvian and needed [replacement]. ❋ Awesome Chick12345678909876543 (2011)

In antediluvian times it was [Minoan] culture that dominated the [islands] of the [Aegean]. ❋ Maximo Hudson (2010)

That [hooker] got [apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur]. [She is] so antediluvian ❋ Magmanimous (2017)

[Noa] was born in the Antediluvian [period] [Your grandma] is so old she's Antediluvian. ❋ Ronin X64 (2009)