backbite
Example Sentences
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Characters backbite, bellyache, reluctantly pitch in and commit mundane acts of heroism in a largely believable manner, and there’s blessedly little inspirational speechmaking.
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2022
Diana could spin one delicious backbite like that into a column.
From Time Magazine Archive
The practice of letters is miserably harassing to the mind; and after an hour or two’s work, all the more human portion of the author is extinct; he will bully, backbite, and speak daggers.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
To backbite is to speak something secretly to one's injury; to calumniate is to invent as well as utter the injurious charge.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
From these though descended our manners are mended, Though still we can grin and backbite!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
