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Another word for backsliding

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Noun

  1. A slipping from a higher or better condition to a lower or poorer one

    See also:

    repetition

    better

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Sentence Examples

  • Why start backsliding now that you've made solid progress for six weeks straight?

  • Katie would think she was backsliding, but that was the way she felt.

  • They held up before a backsliding people the ideals of human duty, of religious truth and of national policy.

  • Carlyle was throughout a pessimist or a prophet denouncing a backsliding world.

  • Unrealistic expectations of dietary perfection only lead to disappointment, discouragement and backsliding.

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