backstabbing
Example Sentences
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In nonviolent settings, it leads to mean-girl-style ostracism or political backstabbing around the corporate watercooler.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026
“The Last Kings” is rife with a different sort of bad behavior: the sort of backstabbing that only friends do.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
“I cannot take any more spoken or silently whispered backstabbing and bludgeoning of my character and identity,” she wrote in the message late last month.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
"Amanda's an awful woman, of course," he said, "a backstabbing snob who treats her children as accessories and turns every encounter with her 'mum chums' at the school gates into a blood sport."
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025
I hadn’t recognized him in his new helmet, but it was my old backstabbing buddy Ethan Nakamura.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
