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UK
/bˈækslaɪd/
]
[ US /ˈbækˌsɫaɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈbækˌsɫaɪd/ ]
VERB
- 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.