If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
[disapproval]
...the government's backsliding on free market reforms.
This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
backsliding in British English
(ˈbækslaɪdɪŋ)
noun
a return to former bad habits or vices from a state of virtue
the government's backsliding on free market reforms
This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
Examples of 'backsliding' in a sentence
backsliding
I mention this because it shows the confidence between us: he turned from the beginning of this bad way and I never saw any backsliding.