backbiter

Example Sentences

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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

He was no backbiter; he refrained, even with me, from hostile criticism of other actors.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various

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

He was a shifty, flattering fellow, at once a toady and a backbiter; who had wormed himself into society too good for him, and in London was Vaughan's b�te noir.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.