backsliding
Meaning of backsliding
- To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide.
- To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
Rich countries are backsliding on their commitment to agree to new WTO measures to help people in poor countries gain access to affordable medicines. — Oxfam press release, 24 June 2002
noun
An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense
adjective
Sliding back
Information about backsliding
- The plural form of backsliding is: backslidings.
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Hyphenation of backsliding
back-slid-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- backsliding is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
backsliding synonyms
Meaning lapse:
lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
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