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backslider

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈbakslaɪdə/(UK)
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/ˈbakslaɪdə/(UK) · /ˈbækslaɪdɚ/(US)

Definition of backslider

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
    “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.”
    “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.’”
    “The choice of unilateralism by the US also exposed it to charges that it is a backslider on its WTO commitments.”
    “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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noun

  1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
    “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.”
    “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.’”
    “The choice of unilateralism by the US also exposed it to charges that it is a backslider on its WTO commitments.”
    “You say that you “lapse into coupledom” on occasion. Do you get grief from fellow militant singles for being a backslider?”
  2. (Ireland)One who will not do his work or shoulder his responsibilities.

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Etymology

From backslide + -er.

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