Examples of “Luddite” in a Sentence

noun A person who is opposed to new technology, or who is unwilling or unable to use it.

• I'm a bit of a Luddite when it comes to smart speakers.
• He was dismissed as a Luddite for questioning the rollout of the new system.

noun A member of the groups of English textile workers who destroyed factory machinery in the early nineteenth century in protest at mechanization and the loss of their livelihoods.

• The Luddites smashed the frames at night and vanished before the militia arrived.

adjective Hostile to, or characteristic of hostility to, new technology.

• The paper took a distinctly Luddite line on artificial intelligence.