BACKSLIDE
backslide
Verb
- To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
- He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide.
- To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
- Rich countries are backsliding on their commitment to agree to new WTO measures to help people in poor countries gain access to affordable medicines. — Oxfam press release, 24 June 2002
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