backbiting

Example Sentences

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I should be happy to go with you there alone, but in company I should object to it: the backbitings and jealousies of new colonists, who have nothing else to amuse themselves, is unbearable.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

There is no stealing, lying, cheating, swearing, drunkenness, fightings, backbitings, vulgarisms, unholy revelries, etc.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

There were numerous little carpings, backbitings, and hypocrisies during the evening, and they reached a climax when Betty said, "Lord Bobbie is coming to-night, my dear."

From The Christian A Story by Caine, Hall, Sir

A system of espionage, whisperings, backbitings, and miserable tittle-tattle, sometimes of the most slanderous or the most ridiculous kind, was set going all over Oxford.

From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

To her also Trelawny's purse was open; but long before the quarrel over "Queen Mab" his generous spirit had begun to groan under her prim banality, and to express itself in ungenerous backbitings.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive