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

Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

A parcel of old women who delight in having some one to run down and backbite.

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony

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