(n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) "If these things are not against the law we need amendments to the Equality Act", she said, adding that if they were against the law "we need to sue the backsides off people".
(2) Leaked Home Office documents show bisexual asylum seekers being asked degrading questions during hours of interrogation by Home Office officials – questions that included: "What is it about men's backsides that attracts you?"
(3) 42 mins: Lovely play by Dindane on the right wing, jinking inside and leaving Coentrao (who has terrible golden-toasted blond highlights from 1986) on his backside.
(4) Why they can't get their head out of their backside?"
(5) "It'll be close, but I've been working my backside off and I'm absolutely determined to deliver change for Bolton ...
(6) Stones was left on his backside by the pirouetting Odion Ighalo as the Nigerian restored Watford’s lead.
(7) No question, Kardashian does dress in a way that shows her backside's shape, but I'm not really sure what else she should do, other than wear a wimple .
(8) There are smaller innovations whose simplicity prompts the question of why they weren't introduced earlier: holders for cups separate from the pull-down meal trays, and a reclining function that pushes your backside and legs forward rather than thrusting the back of your chair into the face of the person behind.
(9) Since black womanhood is apparently all in the look, our society would rather have white, former Disney pop stars twerk , talentless celebrities with enlarged backsides and their equally talentless siblings with swollen lips than celebrate the black woman’s form with the person who carries it.
(10) While there are ways to kick the ultra-conservative Barratts, Bovises and Taylor Wimpeys up the backside, they are never going to answer simple calls to end the housing shortage.
(11) There, he witnessed a native servant, who had dropped a trunk that was being taken on board the ship, being viciously kicked on the backside by a white police sergeant, to the obvious approval of the onlookers.
(12) There is undeniably a touch of class snobbery in reactions to Cole's tattoo – a sense of disapproval of a certain aesthetic style or her decision to cover her whole backside.
(13) In this paper, experimental results of a pilot's ability to control the STOL aircraft are presented for a multi-variable manual control system using a fixed ground base simulator and the pilot's control ability is discussed for the flight of an STOL aircraft at backside of drag curve at approach and landing.
(14) The binding site for the reaction center is on the frontside of cytochrome c which is the side with the exposed heme edge, as revealed by differential chemical acetylation of lysines of free and reaction-center-bound cytochrome c. In contrast, bacterial cytochrome c2 was found previously to bind to the detergent-solubilized reaction center through its backside, i.e., the side opposite to the heme cleft [Rieder, R., Wiemken, V., Bachofen, R., and Bosshard, H. R. (1985).
(15) For discontented voters, especially those who feel that globalisation has done nothing for them and those unpersuaded that Brexit would inflict a material cost on their families, the referendum could be a stick with which to give a satisfying thwack to the backsides of the “political elite”.
(16) The prime minister had failed to remove Bishop as Speaker because he is “protecting his backside”.
(17) Fifteen minutes later the same English justice system – in the formidable shape of Mrs Justice Gloster – gave Berezovsky an almighty and devastating kick up the backside.
(18) As it was, United were lucky Arnautovic, having scored a beauty, could not make it 3-0 after he ran clear on 36 minutes and a traumatic first half for Van Gaal was summed up by Daley Blind trying a cross from the left, scuffing it out of play and ending up on his backside.
(19) Her protest will continue, she says, until her son Alaa Abdel Fattah, a blogger, revolutionary and "thorn in the backside of the military", is released from prison, where he has been since 30 October.
(20) They whistle up a press conference and go into full-control mode in the interest of saving their own backsides and the credibility of the sport that has made them insanely rich.
Backslide
Definition:
(v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
(2) Nasheed clearly understood the need to commune with power – but he also talked about the best way of pushing backsliding politicians in the right direction.
(3) In what appeared to be a concerted Conservative attack, Johnson began by accusing Labour of backsliding over wiping existing tuition fee debts.
(4) A populist government whose democratic backsliding has been ringing alarm bells in Europe will embrace a US president who shares its illiberal views and hostility to migrants.
(5) And how would citizens enforce their rights if there is backsliding, either by the UK for EU residents or by Spain, Germany or any of the other 27 EU member states in the case of UK citizens?
(6) The prime minister was accused of backsliding on promises made by Vote Leave after she cast doubt on the effectiveness of a system admitting people on the basis of their skills and refused to commit an extra £100m to the NHS.
(7) Alex is a hard act to follow but I am determined to lead the SNP – and the country – from strength to strength.” Reiterating her determination to ensure that Holyrood secures the powers promised to Scotland by the pro-union parties before the referendum, she said: “I will always make the case for Scotland to be an independent country, but with the Westminster parties already backsliding on the delivery of new powers, my immediate job will be to hold them firmly to account – and I am today putting them on notice that I intend to do just that.” Sturgeon also announced a speaking tour of cities across Scotland to rally the thousands of new members who have joined the SNP since the referendum on 18 September.
(8) African leaders said ahead of today's talks that they would raise concerns about G8 backsliding.
(9) China was accused of trying to backslide on agreements made last year, by reinstating text that had been left out by previous agreement.
(10) Unions have accused the government of “total betrayal” as it emerged that up to 800 redundancies from Clydeside shipyards could result from backsliding on David Cameron’s pledge to provide a steady stream of orders to safeguard the industry.
(11) The European parliament recently expressed serious concern about “serious backsliding” in Turkey over rights and press freedom , part of a perceived anti-democratic trend under Erdoğan’s presidency.
(12) The AidWatch report singled out the two biggest countries in the eurozone – Germany and France – for backsliding on commitments they had made, and said it was worried that 14% of EU aid – €7.35bn – did not reach developing countries.
(13) Earlier this week Yvo de Boer, the UN's senior climate change official, accused the EU of backsliding on promises it made at a 2007 summit in Bali.
(14) But America is constant paradox; we are backsliding into something insidious, ignoring the civil liberties of black people, denying the basic respect of recognizing the humanity and possibility of black lives.
(15) It may be because Britain has been the international poster child for austerity over the past couple of years and it would encourage backsliding by other, less determined, governments if the Fund gave Osborne the signal to let up.
(16) I think they might backslide on Brexit and I think they will be pushing forward with very, very unpopular policies, raising taxes, penalising small businesses, taking an even bigger stick than they have already to the poorest people on benefits.” Matthew Goodwin, a senior fellow at Chatham House, had predicted that less than half of those who backed Ukip under Farage in the 2015 general election would do so again, with a third moving to the Conservatives.
(17) By their backsliding on gay equality, the Conservatives are missing out on lots of potential pink votes.
(18) It is ridiculously low.” Javadekar said the pledges to the green climate fund amounted to backsliding.
(19) The foreign secretary, David Miliband, said that, far from backsliding, "the EU is going into the final nine months before Copenhagen stronger and stronger".
(20) This meeting is still likely to end with a feel-good statement that some form of progress has been made towards the 2015 goal, but the danger is that between now and that crucial date any further upsets, backsliding, failure to agree finance or deepening rifts between rich and poor could derail the whole process.