Synonyms for BACKSLIDE
- redirecting,
- backslide,
- inverses,
- meet with disaster,
- leave the straight and narrow,
- regressive,
- shunt,
- fall away,
- go along,
- nose dive,
- recidivating,
- doing wrong,
- deny,
- nose-dive,
- running out,
- degradation,
- redirect,
- wicked,
- lose control,
- go backwards,
- immoral,
- reverse,
- brutal,
- backsliding,
- depravity,
- be defeated,
- break law,
- fall short,
- Shunting,
- turn out badly,
- degrade,
- retrogrades,
- overtake,
- falls away,
- go wrong,
- block,
- deprave,
- volte-faces,
- failed,
- nose-dives,
- live in sin,
- founders,
- be in vain,
- come back,
- shunts,
- retrovert,
- degeneracy,
- face about,
- does wrong,
- regression,
- retrogression,
- rechannel,
- expire,
- tip over,
- retreat,
- rechanneling,
- go astray,
- elapse,
- fold up,
- commit crime,
- descend,
- come to nothing,
- be ruined,
- debauched,
- glide by,
- lose out,
- perverted,
- change position,
- Retrograded,
- falling short,
- pass by,
- nosedived,
- tipped over,
- sheers,
- be found lacking,
- blockage,
- take a header,
- vicious,
- contrary,
- flip-flopping,
- sin,
- be overcome,
- falling away,
- wrong,
- fall,
- slip,
- revert to,
- falter,
- barbarous,
- deviate,
- miscarry,
- up set,
- Floundered,
- Zigzagging,
- go down swinging,
- run aground,
- goes wrong,
- recess,
- decay,
- come to naught,
- be precipitated,
- better,
- did wrong,
- plummet,
- regress,
- rotted,
- extend,
- go-by,
- tergiversate,
- deteriorate,
- get back,
- slipping back,
- wallow in the mire,
- fall flat,
- go behind,
- go to the dogs,
- lead,
- miss the mark,
- volte-face,
- go downhill,
- go up in smoke,
- injurious,
- inversed,
- redirects,
- err,
- retract,
- Retrogradation,
- return to,
- Waned,
- cross,
- betray,
- hit the skids,
- evil,
- turn,
- shy away,
- caving in,
- do wrong,
- becoming obsolete,
- pull back,
- drop down,
- fall back,
- misconducted,
- beastly,
- going astray,
- far,
- worsen,
- be demoted,
- break faith,
- miss fire,
- detoured,
- going wrong,
- degenerate,
- devolution,
- recidivate,
- revert,
- degeneration,
- retroflex,
- slide by,
- perversion,
- nose-dived,
- abdicate,
- roll back,
- relapse,
- back wrong horse,
- bar,
- go back,
- turned back,
- Shunted,
- decline,
- Sheering,
- fall from grace,
- Slipped,
- lose status,
- die,
- hit the dirt,
- harmful,
- dishonourable,
- become obsolete,
- disavow,
- Disimprove,
- cruel,
- exceed,
- desert,
- return,
- antecedence,
- goes astray,
- retroversion,
- be vain,
- go to pot,
- rechannels,
- drop away,
- fall off,
- perversity,
- die on vine,
- goes downhill,
- flee,
- recur to,
- going downhill,
- retrogress,
- irredeemable,
- Sheered,
- throw back,
- barricade,
- deliver,
- decadence,
- condescend,
- lose ground,
- fail,
- recidivism,
- arrest,
- demoralization,
- sink,
- widely,
- distortion,
- nose-diving,
- depraved,
- missed the boat,
- recur,
- repetition,
- happen,
- abnegate,
- reversal,
- abandon,
- weaken,
- fall from favor,
- turn back,
- deterioration,
- went astray,
- pad,
- hark back,
- surpass,
- slip by,
- trip,
- recede,
- slip away,
- cave in,
- slide back,
- astray,
- move,
- falls,
- play into,
- bad,
- let slip,
- miss the boat,
- lose value,
- renounce,
- fall off the wagon,
- perverse,
- missed the mark,
- come apart at seams,
- Depravation,
- break commandment,
- hit bottom,
- Retrograding,
- Zigzagged,
- went downhill,
- Backset,
- get behind,
- slip back,
- caves in,
- corruption,
- zigzags,
- redirected,
- retrogressive,
- drop,
- rechannelling,
- Recidivation,
- lapse,
- rechanneled,
- retrograde,
- pass,
- prostitution,
- break down,
- Retrocede,
- sow wild oats,
- be overtaken,
- misconducting,
- breaking down,
- fall through,
- defect,
- Resumed,
- take up where left off,
- detouring,
- give,
- turning back,
- fall behind,
- apostatize,
- take the primrose path.
Usage Examples for BACKSLIDE
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Well, I only hope you'll not backslide." - "Bad Hugh" by Mary Jane Holmes
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Tend to his morals, Philury, men are prone to backslide; start him off reg'lar to meetin', keep clean bandannas in his pocket, let him wear his gingham neckties, he'll cry a good deal and it haint no use to spile his silk ones. - "Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife" by Marietta Holley
