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

Item, that she rails on men in authority, depraving their honours with bitter jests and taunts; and that she's a backbiter, setting strife betwixt bosom friends.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

But the curser causes evil by commanding it, whereas the backbiter merely signifies an evil already existing.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

To be no truce-breaker, nor talebearer nor backbiter.

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe