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

They backbite, they slander me before the king my lord, saying: Abdi-hiba has fallen away from the king his lord.

From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl

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

Legs have I got, but seldom walk, I backbite all, yet never talk.

From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.