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Backslide   /bˈækslˌaɪd/   Listen
Backslide

verb
(past backslid; past part. backslidden; pres. part. backsliding)
1.
Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards.  Synonym: lapse.



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"Backslide" Quotes from Famous Books



... made a man out of you once," answered the tall man evenly, "and I ain't going to see you backslide. Why, Arizona, you're one of the fastest-thinkin', quickest-handed gents that ever buckled on a gun, and here you are lying down like a kid that ain't never faced trouble before. Come alive, man. You and me are going to bust this ol' jail to smithereens, and when we get ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand

... flared up and said you could go to hell! And all this, if you please, for the privilege of seeing Afiola sailing up to the Mission house and being honored guest, and Mrs. Tweedie smiling her prettiest, vice Elijah Coe, fired! We fully thought he'd backslide onto square-face and female society, but, if anything, he grew more missionary than ever, and nearly lammed the life out of Freddy Rice for speaking disrespectful of the Virgin Mary! You see, Coe's religion, being as it was Mrs. Tweedie, didn't make no proper distinction ...
— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne

... from church, that redheaded harridan would open up on him with such a string of vituperation that he had to hold his ears so's not to forget himself and backslide. Well, it got so that Bob couldn't live with her any longer. She simply wouldn't puritanize. The nearest he ever got her to saying 'good' was when she said it with only one 'o,' and then as prefix to 'dammit.' So he decided the only way to reform her was to murder her. She managed to nip ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon



Words linked to "Backslide" :   drop off, lapse, slip, fall away, drop away, backslider



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