backbite
Example Sentences
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The truth of the matter is it's pretty disingenuous of Pryce and her publishers Backbite to suggest that this will be a serious political book.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2013
O here is that disagreeable lover of mine, Sir Benjamin Backbite, has just call'd at my guardian's with his odious Uncle Crabtree—so I slipt out and ran hither to avoid them.
From School for Scandal by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Lady S. Nay, you must allow that many people of sense and wit have this foible—Sir Benjamin Backbite, for instance.
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas
Perhaps his nephew, the baronet, Sir Benjamin Backbite, is the happy man?
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas
I haven't the most distant Idea—it can't be Sir Benjamin Backbite.
From School for Scandal by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
