backbiting

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Backbiting has intensified since an exchange of offers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2011

Backchannels and Backbiting Essentially, a backchannel is a communication system that seeks to circumvent normal procedures; it requires, however, somebody's facilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Backbiting Capital of the World Most of the familiar Irish characteristics�which nobody admits to having seen lately�are survivals and distortions from the past.

From Time Magazine Archive

Backbiting consists in saying evil of others, either deservedly or undeservedly; but when undeservedly, and especially when one knows it to be so, backbiting becomes slander.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul

That I may be averse to Talebearing, Backbiting, Detraction, Slander, & Craft, and overreaching, abhor Extortion, Perjury, and every Kind of wickedness,—Help me, O Father!

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.