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
From these though descended our manners are mended, Though still we can grin and backbite!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Do not malign or backbite your absent friend.
From Girls: Faults and Ideals A Familiar Talk, with Quotations from Letters by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)
Let us pitch ill-nature into the sea—as the boys say—and henceforth backbite no more.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
