backsliding vs tergiversation

backsliding

noun
  • An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense. 

adj
  • sliding back 

tergiversation

noun
  • The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal. 

  • The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness. 

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