backbite

Example Sentences

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Characters backbite, bellyache, reluctantly pitch in and commit mundane acts of heroism in a largely believable manner, and there’s blessedly little inspirational speechmaking.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2022

Diana could spin one delicious backbite like that into a column.

From Time Magazine Archive

No; I’m not censorious, and I wouldn’t backbite an angel; but the way in which that young woman walks the sands at all hours - there! there!

From Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Jerrold, Douglas William

Legs have I got, but seldom walk, I backbite all, yet never talk.

From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.

The only thing in which all parties agreed was to backbite the manager, and cabal against his regulations.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington