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
Oh, he is a backbiter, too, is he?
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade
I never said my uncle was a backbiter.
From The Miraculous Revenge Little Blue Book #215 by E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius
Item, that she rails on men in authority, depraving their honours with bitter jests and taunts; and that she's a backbiter, setting strife betwixt bosom friends.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
