backstabbing
Example Sentences
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In nonviolent settings, it leads to mean-girl-style ostracism or political backstabbing around the corporate watercooler.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026
“The Last Kings” is rife with a different sort of bad behavior: the sort of backstabbing that only friends do.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
George Cukor’s black-and-white vision traipses its heroines through dress fittings, manicures and facials, day drinking and backstabbing all the way, save for an interruption by a Technicolor fashion show.
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025
It sets the stage for backstabbing, strained loyalties, romantic possibilities and plenty of name-dropping — albeit with considerably less curse words than the original “Suits.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2025
After all, she came from a long line of backstabbing, power-hungry rivals.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
