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backslide

[ UK /bˈæksla‍ɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈbækˌsɫaɪd/ ]
VERB
  1. drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

How To Use backslide In A Sentence

  • One backslider returned to the fold is a greater victory than a thousand heathen. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
  • There are many recorded instances of the moonwalk, originally known as the backslide or Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Today the forces offer planned careers for young men and women who are intent on gaining a professional training and there is no room for backsliders, unwilling recruits or recalcitrant conscripts.
  • The "backslider" is an excellent illustration of the results of periodic renewal of impulse to right living. Church Cooperation in Community Life
  • And as for the common, partial, and ignorant histories of France, written in our tongue, they generally make him a kind of backslider, who might have been a Huguenot Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
  • Why, for that matter, should the international community trust a backslider with a track record of preferring force to freedom? Democracy Is the Only Solution in Madagascar
  • The shoes will still be there if the world disappointingly backslides behind old battlelines.
  • Some days I would backslide, and I'd still have anger, and I would just read the list.
  • I like to hire good Church members, but sometimes they backslide. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
  • We say stand firm with the purpose and the mission and to hell with all those who may wish, for whatever reason, to backslide.
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