backsliding

About 0.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of backslide
2. adjective sliding back
3. noun An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

   democratic backsliding

Similar words

relapse relapsing reversion recidivism lapse lapsing reverting backtracking retrogression recoil

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