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

WOE unto every slanderer, and backbiter: who heapeth up riches, and prepareth the same for the time to come!

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by Sale, George

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

He was a shifty, flattering fellow, at once a toady and a backbiter; who had wormed himself into society too good for him, and in London was Vaughan's b�te noir.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.