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
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
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
A parcel of old women who delight in having some one to run down and backbite.
From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony
