backbiting

Example Sentences

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Backbiting has intensified since an exchange of offers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2011

Backchannels and Backbiting Essentially, a backchannel is a communication system that seeks to circumvent normal procedures; it requires, however, somebody's facilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Backbiting Capital of the World Most of the familiar Irish characteristics�which nobody admits to having seen lately�are survivals and distortions from the past.

From Time Magazine Archive

Backbiting, slander and dwelling on the faults of others have been repeatedly condemned by Bahá’u’lláh.

From The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

"I 'fawncy'" - and she imitated the dainty tones used by Belle - "they have had - " "Backbiting and detraction," called Cora, who had been close enough to hear the sisters' remarks.

From The Motor Girls on a Tour by Penrose, Margaret