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

You would not like your neighbor to backbite you, and you have no right to do to him what you would not wish him to do to you.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

Yea, rather than thou wilt go without it, thou wilt dissemble, lie, backbite thy neighbour, and an hundred other tricks thou wilt have.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

If we backbite our friends, we give them free permission to backbite us, or we know that they do it, which amounts to pretty much the same thing.

From Name and Fame A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline