backbiter
Example Sentences
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Grey-haired, lethargic, Temugin is the easy victim of an adroit harem intrigue, and of a backbiter who convinces overlord Ung that his satellite is a traitorous rival deserving death.
From Time Magazine Archive
“It’s my fault, Mama. I did a really mean thing to Emily, and I’m a backbiter, and I’m going to be punished...”
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
Midshipman Farley was nothing at all on the order of the backbiter.
From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
He was a sneaking backbiter, and had a blood-hound scent after an attorney.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
Therefore it seems that one is not always bound to withstand a backbiter.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
