backbiter

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Grey-haired, lethargic, Temugin is the easy victim of an adroit harem intrigue, and of a backbiter who convinces overlord Ung that his satellite is a traitorous rival deserving death.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It’s my fault, Mama. I did a really mean thing to Emily, and I’m a backbiter, and I’m going to be punished...”

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

Besides, everyone hates and fears a backbiter; because as he brings to you a bad story about another, he will in the same manner bring to someone else a bad story about you.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

Look here," he exclaimed, "you will never be anything better than a backbiter and selfish.

From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Pont-Jest, Ren? de

Would the slanderer, or backbiter, or hypocrite, indulge their habits if they realized this truth? 

From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles