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backslider

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈbakslaɪdə/Part of speech nounSorted abcdeiklrsStarts with BEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior

Word origin

From backslide + -er.

Used in a sentence

  • She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.
  • At night the Red Elephant Tusk boomed and groaned among the hills, and the faithful waked and said: ‘The God of Things as They Are matures revenge against the backsliders.’
  • The choice of unilateralism by the US also exposed it to charges that it is a backslider on its WTO commitments.

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