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backbiting

How to use backbiting in a sentence

He hated any species of backbiting, and he had heard of Burleigh as an adept in the art, and a man to be feared.

WARRIOR GAPCHARLES KING

But I cannot bear that a slanderous backbiting tongue should make you think that I have seen no service.

To do so is to engage my daughter to sorrow, and hope deferred, and miserable backbiting!

WAS IT RIGHT TO FORGIVE?AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR

For those were happy times when backbiting among artists took the more manly form of poisoning.

They were much given to gluttony and drinking; and there was an unthinkable amount of scandal and backbiting and jealousy.

There is no parallel to the prying, tattling, backbiting littleness of the place elsewhere in the world.

VENETIAN LIFEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

It is entitled "Salander," and has for its subject the backbiting dragon sometimes called by similar name.

A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many; strong cities hath it pulled down, and overthrown the houses of great men.

HUMAN NATUREJOSEPH BUTLER

Backbiting may arise from ill-will or thoughtlessness, and slander is the work of baseness and perfidy.

Of reciprocal accommodation they have no idea: backbiting and hidden spitefulness maintain a constant jealousy among them.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985