backbiter

Example Sentences

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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

Sycophanta is such a dissembler, traitor, and backbiter that would earn a grey coat. 

From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Bell, Captain Henry

Look here," he exclaimed, "you will never be anything better than a backbiter and selfish.

From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Pont-Jest, Ren? de

Besides, everyone hates and fears a backbiter; because as he brings to you a bad story about another, he will in the same manner bring to someone else a bad story about you.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.