backbiter

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Grey-haired, lethargic, Temugin is the easy victim of an adroit harem intrigue, and of a backbiter who convinces overlord Ung that his satellite is a traitorous rival deserving death.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It’s my fault, Mama. I did a really mean thing to Emily, and I’m a backbiter, and I’m going to be punished...”

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

Would the slanderer, or backbiter, or hypocrite, indulge their habits if they realized this truth? 

From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles

To be no truce-breaker, nor talebearer nor backbiter.

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

There is yet one who is numbered among the asas, but whom some call the backbiter of the asas.

From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Anderson, Rasmus Björn