backbite

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The truth of the matter is it's pretty disingenuous of Pryce and her publishers Backbite to suggest that this will be a serious political book.

From The Guardian • May 14, 2013

I haven't the most distant Idea—it can't be Sir Benjamin Backbite.

From School for Scandal by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

By gad! you're as bad as old Backbite himself.

From Marion's Faith. by King, Charles

Perhaps his nephew, the baronet, Sir Benjamin Backbite, is the happy man?

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas

Lady S. Nay, you must allow that many people of sense and wit have this foible—Sir Benjamin Backbite, for instance.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas