Thesaurus / backslider
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The prodigal was a backslider: when furthest from home he could yet think and speak of the privileges of his father's house.
SEPARATION AND SERVICEJAMES HUDSON TAYLORHe was a backslider, and had stopped in passing, being attracted by a hymn I was singing—one his mother used to sing.
PRISONS AND PRAYER: OR A LABOR OF LOVEELIZABETH RYDER WHEATONRetire then, thou poor backslider, from the haunts of evil—and yet hope for mercy.
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EASTIf a sinner, newly awakened, be in danger of this species of despondency, a backslider is still more so.
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EASTA man isn't a backslider because he's carnally weak, and a man isn't a saint because he's moral and well-behaved.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXVIII. FEBRUARY, 1843. VOL. LIII.VARIOUSShe was a backslider and put off her return to God and kept putting it off.
STEVE P. HOLCOMBE, THE CONVERTED GAMBLERREV. GROSS ALEXANDERI low you might say, an be near the truth, that Im a damned backslider.
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELFNORMAN DUNCANAfter several voyages Borella became "cold and a backslider," and an eye disease nearly blinded him.
THE KIRK ON RUTGERS FARMFREDERICK BRCKBAUERYou would not straightway brand the art of music as heretical, if perchance some musician were to be apprehended as a backslider.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAMEPHRAIM EMERTONSix weeks passed in this state of spiritual declension, when God took a strange way to reclaim the backslider.
GEORGE MULLER OF BRISTOLARTHUR T. PIERSONWORDS RELATED TO BACKSLIDER
- actor
- attitudinizer
- backslider
- bigot
- bluffer
- casuist
- charlatan
- cheat
- con artist
- crook
- deceiver
- decoy
- dissembler
- dissimulator
- fake
- faker
- four-flusher
- fraud
- humbug
- hypocrite
- impostor
- informer
- lip server
- malingerer
- masquerader
- mountebank
- pharisee
- phony
- playactor
- poser
- pretender
- quack
- smoothie
- sophist
- swindler
- trickster
- two-face
- two-timer
- wolf in sheep's clothing
- Benedict Arnold
- Judas
- apostate
- back-stabber
- backslider
- betrayer
- conspirator
- deceiver
- defector
- deserter
- double-crosser
- fink
- hypocrite
- impostor
- informer
- intriguer
- miscreant
- quisling
- rebel
- renegade
- snake
- sneak
- snitch
- snitcher
- spy
- squealer
- stool pigeon
- tattletale
- traducer
- treasonist
- turncoat
- two-timer
- whistle-blower
- wolf
- Benedict arnolds
- Judases
- apostates
- back-stabbers
- backsliders
- betrayers
- conspirators
- deceivers
- defectors
- deserters
- double-crossers
- finks
- hypocrites
- impostors
- informers
- intriguers
- miscreants
- quisling
- rebels
- renegades
- snakes
- sneaks
- snitchers
- snitches
- spies
- squealers
- stool pigeons
- tattletales
- traducers
- treasonists
- turncoats
- two-timers
- whistle-blowers
- wolves
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