Antonyms for backlash
ˈbækˌlæʃback·lash

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1. recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlashnoun

   a movement back from an impact

   Synonyms:
   repercussion, rebound, reverberation, kick, recoil

2. backlashverb

   an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence

   "there was a backlash of intolerance"

   Synonyms:
   recoil, rebound, repercussion

3. backfire, backlash, recoilverb

   come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

   "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"

   Synonyms:
   rebound, spring, quail, flinch, bound, funk, kick, squinch, ricochet, kick back, cringe, bounce, wince, recoil, backfire, resile, reverberate, take a hop, shrink

How to use backlash in a sentence?

1. Jessica Salerno:

   I'm not really sure if Hollywood will listen to the fans, i really hope they do. There is still such a huge amount of people against the LGBT community, and the amount of backlash from #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend shows that.

2. Phoenix Kalen at Societe Generale:

   Market participants are anxious regarding the extent of the Western backlash against Russia in response to the government’s crackdown on protests by Navalny supporters.

3. Jack Qiu Linchuan:

   It is the Chinese government which allowed Wang Taixu's video to be so widely circulated and generate such heated discussions, one of the fundamental reasons for the huge public backlash is that the government did not censor it, despite having the full ability to do so.

4. James Carville:

   Some of these people need to go to a' woke' detox center or something, they're expressing a language that people just don't use, and there's backlash and a frustration at that.

5. Dan Sperling:

   If there's one (airplane) crash a year, it creates huge backlash — and airplanes are far, far safer than cars.

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