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
"Believe what? why, madam, that Charles Lamb was a backbiter?"
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Begbie, Harold
Accordingly a backbiter is a murderer occasionally, since by his words he gives another man an occasion for hating or despising his neighbor.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
He was no backbiter; he refrained, even with me, from hostile criticism of other actors.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various
