backbiter

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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

He was no backbiter; he refrained, even with me, from hostile criticism of other actors.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various

Therefore it seems that one is not always bound to withstand a backbiter.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Sycophanta is such a dissembler, traitor, and backbiter that would earn a grey coat. 

From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Bell, Captain Henry