Crossword-Solution: BACKSLIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backslide | v. i. | To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed. |
We have 57 clues for the answer “BACKSLIDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| retrovert | 1 answer |
| relapse into former bad habits | 1 answer |
| Relapse into bad habits | 1 answer |
| Return to sinful ways | 1 answer |
| Reverse progress | 1 answer |
| Text an ex you were *almost* over, say | 1 answer |
| Revert to old habits | 1 answer |
| Fall off the wagon | 5 answers |
| Slip Back | 12 answers |
| retrogress | 19 answers |
| MOVE backward | 22 answers |
| tergiversate | 30 answers |
| recidivate | 31 answers |
| apostatise | 34 answers |
| Prevaricate | 34 answers |
| MOVE in reverse | 38 answers |
| Renege | 39 answers |
| Side-step | 43 answers |
| dissemble | 44 answers |
| Shun | 45 answers |
| equivocate | 48 answers |
| Pussyfoot | 48 answers |
| Deteriorate | 48 answers |
| Quibble | 50 answers |
| Recede | 51 answers |
| Go Back | 51 answers |
| Fall (off) | 51 answers |
| Evade | 51 answers |
| Desecrate | 53 answers |
| worsen | 53 answers |
| Elude | 53 answers |
| Fall Short | 54 answers |
| Falsify | 55 answers |
| Fence | 56 answers |
| Pretend | 56 answers |
| Dodge | 57 answers |
| Revert | 57 answers |
| Degenerate | 60 answers |
| shuffle | 60 answers |
| Ditch | 60 answers |
| Avoid | 60 answers |
| Abort | 61 answers |
| Hedge-___ | 62 answers |
| Descend | 63 answers |
| Lapse | 65 answers |
| Slope | 66 answers |
| relapse | 66 answers |
| Withdraw | 68 answers |
| regress | 69 answers |
| Duck | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKSLIDE (5)
Men are wise with their schools and their teachers, Men are just with their creeds and their priests; Yet, in spite of their pedants and preachers, They backslide in footprints of beasts! Hugo: From the smoky altar there seems to come A stifled murmur, a droning hum.
Such a change didn't come easily; I am still trying, but old habits from the past keep causing me to backslide at times.
But the heathen do not always wish to be 'convert;' the heathen fly, the heathen skidaddle, the heathen will not remain, or will backslide.
And I didn't know but that even a pa'son might backslide to such things in these gory times--I won't say on a Zunday, but on a week-night like this--when we think what a blasphemious rascal he is, and that there's not a more charnel-minded villain towards womenfolk in the whole world.
Anyhow, if I did let him brand me I'd only backslide in a week,” and Hopalong pressed his pony to a more rapid gait as two men emerged from the tent.
Quotes with BACKSLIDE (3)
Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically literate democracy, and even suggests a statement of purpose for it (a surprisingly elusive principle in higher education today). The goal of education is to make up for the shortcomings in our instinctive ways of thinking about the physical and social world. And education is likely to succeed not by trying to implant abstract statem…
If you do not evaluate your salvation highly enough, then in time you will backslide
Once you backslide, strife will enter your life
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1995–2014).