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
No; I’m not censorious, and I wouldn’t backbite an angel; but the way in which that young woman walks the sands at all hours - there! there!
From Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Jerrold, Douglas William
From these though descended our manners are mended, Though still we can grin and backbite!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
A parcel of old women who delight in having some one to run down and backbite.
From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony
