Meaning of Backslider | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
2. One who will not do his work or shoulder his responsibilities.
   Ireland

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Examples

“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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