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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope