backwater

When you talk about midtown Manhattan as being a commercial backwater, I find it mind boggling.

They both think that Los Angeles, long maligned as a culinary backwater, is the best food city in America.

North Korea is an economic wreck and a technological backwater.

The president is likely headed to a bureaucratic backwater as his famed office is renovated.

In contrast, says Aftergood, “security has traditionally been a backwater that hires former military personnel and muscle men.”

The rugged pioneer community had become, I suddenly saw, a rural backwater.

Once swung out of that backwater they had been swept away, powerless to know where they went, to guess what was their destination.

At last only fourteen of the English were left alive and they got hopelessly penned in a backwater.

Why, you both look as you did that night the backwater of the South Fork came into our cabin.

The blue heron rose heavily from the backwater, and winged his slow flight high above the trees.