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

All this while Michelangelo's enemies, headed by Nanni di Baccio Bigio, continued to calumniate and backbite.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

Use his men well, Davy; for they     are arrant knaves and will backbite.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William

Mrs. Portal talked scandal herself and enjoyed it, but she didn't backbite, which is the difference between good and ill nature.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia