backbiter
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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
And check with an indignant frown The scurrilous backbiter; But speed good-humour as it runs, Be even tolerant of puns, And every mirth-exciter.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 by Various
Therefore a tale-bearer is the same as a backbiter.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Item, that she rails on men in authority, depraving their honours with bitter jests and taunts; and that she's a backbiter, setting strife betwixt bosom friends.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
