Backslider

/ˈbækslaɪdɚ/

Synonyms for "backslider" (45 found)

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Closest matches (9)

Strong matches (14)

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Noun(1 words)
moral relapser

Related words (22)

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More general

6 entries
believermoral agentoffenderpersonreligious adherentwrongdoer

More specific

4 entries
behavioral backslidermoral backslidernonreligious backsliderreligious backslider

Collocations

6 entries
backslider behaviorbackslider relapsedevout backsliderhabitual backslidermoral backsliderreligious backslider

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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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.

Source: wiktionary

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.’

Source: wiktionary

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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You say that you “lapse into coupledom” on occasion. Do you get grief from fellow militant singles for being a backslider?

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