backstabbing

Example Sentences

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There’s a lot less backstabbing and reality nonsense that you saw in the earlier seasons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In nonviolent settings, it leads to mean-girl-style ostracism or political backstabbing around the corporate watercooler.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

She won her first film role in 1963’s “13 Frightened Girls” as a diplomat’s daughter but found greater renown as a backstabbing schemer on the ABC soap “Peyton Place” a few years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

The UK, it appears, can't get enough of betrayal, backstabbing and all-out duplicity.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 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