Synonyms for backslider
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bak-slahyd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbækˌslaɪd |
Top 10 synonyms for backslider Other synonyms for the word backslider
- abandoner
- absconder
- actor
- ame damnee
- apostate
- attitudinizer
- AWOL
- back-stabber
- backslider
- Benedict Arnold
- betrayer
- bigot
- bluffer
- casuist
- charlatan
- cheat
- con artist
- crook
- deceiver
- decoy
- delinquent
- derelict
- dissembler
- dissenter
- dissimulator
- double-crosser
- escapee
- escaper
- exile
- fake
- faker
- fink
- forsaker
- four-flusher
- fraud
- fugitive
- hook
- hookey player
- humbug
- iconoclast
- intriguer
- Judas
- lawbreaker
- lip server
- lost sheep
- lost soul
- malingerer
- maroon
- masquerader
- miscreant
- mountebank
- mutineer
- no-show
- nonconformist
- outlaw
- pharisee
- phony
- playactor
- poser
- pretender
- quack
- quisling
- rat
- rebel
- recidivist
- recreant
- refugee
- renegade
- runaway
- schismatic
- shirker
- slacker
- smoothie
- snake
- snake in the grass
- sneak
- snitch
- snitcher
- sophist
- spy
- squealer
- stool pigeon
- swindler
- tattletale
- tergiversator
- traducer
- traitor
- treasonist
- trickster
- truant
- turnabout
- turncoat
- two-face
- two-timer
- whistle-blower
- wolf
- wolf in sheep's clothing
Définition of backslider
Origin :- in the religious sense, 1580s, from back (adj.) + slide (v.). Related: Backslider; backsliding (1550s).
- As in renegade : noun person who is rebellious
- As in traitor : noun person who is disloyal
- As in fallen angel : noun angel cast out of heaven
- As in tartuffe : noun hypocrite
- As in deserter : noun fugitive from responsibility
- As in apostate : noun traitor
- As in hypocrite : noun person who pretends, is deceitful
- Why, Zeke Bassett and the rest have been finding fault with her and calling her a backslider.
- Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- But he was leaning on a broken reed, for Beta was himself a backslider.
- Extract from : « George Muller of Bristol » by Arthur T. Pierson
- Yes, he's my dog if he is a backslider, and that settles it.
- Extract from : « Flamsted quarries » by Mary E. Waller
- Accordingly, the next day he was on the lookout for the backslider.
- Extract from : « Bert Wilson on the Gridiron » by J. W. Duffield
- Is that love which trusts not and is not ready to share the lot even of the backslider?
- Extract from : « The Bride of the Nile, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- He set his teeth together and cursed himself for a fool and a backslider.
- Extract from : « In the Wilderness » by Robert Hichens
- Consider, that there is none that so much dishonoureth God as a backslider.
- Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
- Could his pupil have become a backslider in the last two years?
- Extract from : « The Decadent » by Ralph Adams Cram
- No backslider after gross sin may be readmitted till after three months.
- Extract from : « The Religious Life of London » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- She was a backslider and put off her return to God and kept putting it off.
- Extract from : « Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler » by Rev. Gross Alexander
Antonyms for backslider
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