backstab

Example Sentences

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"You don't know who to trust, and when you do trust someone they backstab you," he says.

From BBC

Trump exploded: "These people love me. These are my people. I can't backstab the people who support me."

From Salon

Trump exploded at Ryan: "These people love me. These are my people. I can't backstab the people who support me."

From Salon

In addition to “Peerless,” there are Sophie McIntosh’s “Macbitches,” about a group of college students who backstab one another in order to get the lead role in a school play, and “Mac Beth,” by Erica Schmidt, who condensed the text to 90 minutes and set her work in an all-girls high school.

From New York Times

He always acts furtively, whether he’s trying to backstab a coach he’s disenchanted with or silence a woman who refuses to be a sex mannequin.

From Washington Post