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

S: O you who believe! avoid most of suspicion, for surely suspicion in some cases is a sin, and do not spy nor let some of you backbite others.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

Let us pitch ill-nature into the sea—as the boys say—and henceforth backbite no more.

From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

If we backbite our friends, we give them free permission to backbite us, or we know that they do it, which amounts to pretty much the same thing.

From Name and Fame A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline