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 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
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
All this while Michelangelo's enemies, headed by Nanni di Baccio Bigio, continued to calumniate and backbite.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington
