Words and phrases that have a meaning related to backsliding: (128 results)
Often used in the same context:
backtracking, authoritarianism, undermining, protectionism, stalling, meddling, reengagement, complacency, soft pedaling, slackening, abuses, illiberalism, slippage, temporizing, regress, bloodshed, slowing, pitchiness, discord, intransigency, immobilism, militarizing, russophobia, vacillation, democracy, repression, obstructionism, dissent, timidness, neglect, progress, hypocrisy, stonewalling, bellicosity, inaction, insincerity, impatience, stumbling, diminution, retrogression, glimmers, blinken, posturing, setbacks, pork barreling, weakening, diminishment, triumphalism, deterioration, equivocation, instability, revanchism, discouragement, fraying, unilateralism, unseemliness, squandering, corruption, democratization, irrationalism, degradation, nothingism, democratic, autocracy, pluralism, reassertion, dithering, cynicism, waffling, human rights, flouting, trampling, impositions, letup, despotism, quibbling, scapegoating, reactionism, inconsistency, heterodoxy, sectionalism, immoderation, irrelevance, reversals, overreach, extremism, incoherence, demagoguery, stagnation, totalitarianism, theologizing, proselytizing, isolationism, paternalism, intransigence, sluggishness, pronouncements, unraveling, enfeeblement, regression, summitry, undercutting, defection, defections, disenchantment, dissension, embarrassment, estrangement, renovation, disappointment, reverses, schisms, apostasy, confusion, uprooting, want, conflict, disunion, privation, rejuvenation
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— Adjectives for backsliding: such, moral, much, perpetual, occasional, religious, own, spiritual, political, considerable, serious, more...
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