backbite

Example Sentences

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The truth of the matter is it's pretty disingenuous of Pryce and her publishers Backbite to suggest that this will be a serious political book.

From The Guardian • May 14, 2013

James was indeed not only very ill, but growing slowly worse; for he lay struggling at last in the Backbite of Conscience, who had him in her unrelaxing jaws, and was worrying him well.

From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George

O here is that disagreeable lover of mine, Sir Benjamin Backbite, has just call'd at my guardian's with his odious Uncle Crabtree—so I slipt out and ran hither to avoid them.

From School for Scandal by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

The Tattle was captured along with its master, Backbite, by Commander Takeheed of the Kind.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher

By gad! you're as bad as old Backbite himself.

From Marion's Faith. by King, Charles