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
Besides, everyone hates and fears a backbiter; because as he brings to you a bad story about another, he will in the same manner bring to someone else a bad story about you.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead
He was a sneaking backbiter, and had a blood-hound scent after an attorney.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
And check with an indignant frown The scurrilous backbiter; But speed good-humour as it runs, Be even tolerant of puns, And every mirth-exciter.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 by Various
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