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

From these though descended our manners are mended, Though still we can grin and backbite!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

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