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backbite

verb as in defame

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These days, both chambers are bubbling cauldrons of animosity and partisan backbiting.

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In the book, Khachigian doesn’t pull punches in condemning backbiting and turf building by ambitious presidential aides.

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He said "constant backbiting and attacking colleagues" by Tory MPs during the last parliament was a key reason "why the party did so badly in the general election".

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Her phone often glows with backbiting messages from Republican factions going after one another, notably in a recent intraparty skirmish over the appointment of a district clerk, which led to name-calling and a lawsuit.

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“One: Flowers and France,” the first of the two parts, has all the political backbiting and scheming of a closed-door Republican caucus to decide the next Speaker of the House.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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