Backsliding Synonyms

A slipping from a higher or better condition to a lower or poorer one
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lapse
  2. relapse
  3. backslide
  4. recidivation
  5. lapsing
  6. recidivism
  7. retrusion
  8. amorality
  9. relapsing
  10. reversion
  11. reverting
  12. ungood

Words Related to Backsliding

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Backsliding 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.

  • Hermas sees that mere repentance is not enough to meet the backsliding condition in which so many Christians then were, owing to the recoil of inveterate habits of worldliness 4 entrenched in society around and within.

  • 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.

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