backslide
IPA: bˈæksɫaɪd
noun
- A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.
- (dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
verb
- To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
- To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
- (Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
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Examples of "backslide" in Sentences
- The article is now starting to backslide.
- For this it is also important not to backslide.
- Both those win came after a Bridging Backslide.
- It is frustrating to watch him backslide into denial.
- Dan Backslide was a caricature of Jones' animator Ken Harris.
- I think both do try, but both also sometimes backslide a bit.
- Stratus won the match after surprising Moore with a backslide pin.
- She was able to score the Pinfall after her trademark Backslide Pin.
- The leading skate is sliding just on the h block and backslide plate.
- Perhaps a bit more like a backslide, but nevertheless very legitimate.
- There are many recorded instances of the moonwalk, originally known as the backslide or
- Another method of the devil to cause you to backslide is to induce you to practice something again that you told
- But, notably, the hearings board said small - and medium-sized cities can't "backslide" as a result of its ruling.
- As some people already know, a dance move called the moonwalk (aka backslide) had been existed before it became the "moonwalk".
- Somewhere along the way, deep in our long term backslide in education spending and the decline of leisure time we produced a society of people impatient to study a situation then react in a non-violent way.
- I find in myself a natural aversion to my duty, and to spiritual and divine exercises, and a propensity to that which is evil, such an inclination towards the world and the flesh as amounts to a propensity to backslide from the living
- SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Just a few months after passing comprehensive health reform, U.S. lawmakers appear willing to risk a short-term backslide in the push to reduce the number of uninsured Americans until the overhaul's major provisions take effect in
- It is with a sense of profound ennui that one reads today the enthralling news that, "Gordon Brown hinted … that he could yet call a referendum on the new EU reform treaty if fellow European leaders 'backslide' on deals struck by Tony Blair to protect British sovereignty."