backsliding

Plural: backslidings

Noun

• a failure to maintain a higher state
• An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

Verb

• drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
• present participle and gerund of backslide

Adj

• sliding back

Examples

• democratic backsliding

Synonyms

backslide, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting

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