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

Find something pleasant to say of each, that you may not earn the reputation of a backbiter.

From Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. by Frost, Sarah Annie

Midshipman Farley was nothing at all on the order of the backbiter.

From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Objection 1: It would seem that the listener who suffers a backbiter does not sin grievously.

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