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backslide
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back·slide  (bksld)
intr.v. back·slid (-sld), back·slid·ing, back·slides
To revert to sin or wrongdoing, especially in religious practice.

backslider n.

backslide [ˈbækˌslaɪd]
vb -slides, -sliding, -slid ; -slid, -slidden
(intr) to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
backslider  n
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Verb1.backslide - drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
drop away, fall away, slip, drop off - get worse; "My grades are slipping"

backslide
verb relapse, slip, weaken, go wrong, stray, lapse, revert to old habits, fall back, degenerate, slip back to old ways, regress, go astray, retrogress Keep these things in mind to help prevent you from backsliding.
Translations
backslide [ˈbækˈslaɪd] (backslid (pt, pp)) VIreincidir, recaer
backslide [ˈbækslaɪd] viretomber dans l'erreur


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In addition, the New York-based Committee for the Protection of Journalists has placed Egypt in seventh place in its list of the world's top 10 backsliders on press freedom in 2008.
CPJ labels Ethiopia as one of the world's worst backsliders of press freedom, a steady decline made worse by a recent draconian anti-terror legislation.
Byline: TRAYNOR IT WOULD have been trebles all round for the SPL's old backslapping backsliders up at the private members' club on Hampden's top floor.
 
 
 
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