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

One can't be very frivolous when there is no one to be frivolous with; nor can one backbite and be unkind, for there is no provocation.

From Olivia in India by Douglas, O.

As Brandes wittily observes: "People who talk like that do not torture their enemy to death; they backbite him."

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

Let us pitch ill-nature into the sea—as the boys say—and henceforth backbite no more.

From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de