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
What I am anxious for is that you shouldn't be a backbiter.
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
Would the slanderer, or backbiter, or hypocrite, indulge their habits if they realized this truth?
From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles
Midshipman Farley was nothing at all on the order of the backbiter.
From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
