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

They backbite, they slander me before the king my lord, saying: Abdi-hiba has fallen away from the king his lord.

From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl

The only thing in which all parties agreed was to backbite the manager, and cabal against his regulations.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

Wherefore, properly speaking, to backbite is to speak ill of an absent person in order to blacken his good name.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint