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.
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Backslider
//ˈbækslaɪdɚ//
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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.’
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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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