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backsliding

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verb

present participle of backslide

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for backsliding
Adjective
  • The New Yorker story alleged that Willingham had a reputation for drinking too much, being unfaithful and physically abusing Stacy.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Medieval scholars – all men – defined women’s temperament in negative terms: Women were libidinous, frivolous, unfaithful, capricious, unpredictable and easily tempted.
    Joelle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This expansion of cooperation in Israel’s energy security with Azerbaijan – a secular state with a Muslim Shi’a majority, builds on over thirty years of cordial relations and joint projects in defense, energy, culture, air transportation, and foreign policy.
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The book boldly subverts the standard view of Pakistani politics as a contest of dueling binaries, religious and secular, military and civilian.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Michelle Yeoh Yeoh may be in her villain era, but there's nothing sinful about her Louvre look.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The dominant Christian theology of the Middle Ages held that wealth was inherently sinful in a world where most people toiled in terrible poverty.
    Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • As Markle's version of Goop, The Tig was about living a worldly life, broadening your horizons, and aspiring for beauty and wellness in the everyday.
    Alanna Bennett, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The breakfast buffet, too, is just as worldly: the bountiful help-yourself spread of arepas, empanadas, smoked salmon, baba ganoush, fresh fruit, and more is the perfect way to fuel up for a day of exploring.
    Katie Chang, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • China, for example, plans to launch its own sample return mission to Mars in 2028 with the goal of returning those samples to Earth in 2031.
    Tariq Malik, Space.com, 4 Jan. 2025
  • With nine matches in January across four competitions, focus remains on potential returning players, with fellow defender Takehiro Tomiyasu also on the mend.
    Art de Roché, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Backsliding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backsliding. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.

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