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

I am sorry to be obliged to backbite, but really and truly we don’t like Mrs. De Lancey Smythe.

From The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies by Crane, Laura Dent

Do not malign or backbite your absent friend.

From Girls: Faults and Ideals A Familiar Talk, with Quotations from Letters by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

Ah, I'm afraid you mean she doesn't backbite.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various