Associations to the word «Backslider»

Wiktionary

BACKSLIDER, noun. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

Dictionary definition

BACKSLIDER, noun. Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior.

Wise words

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams