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
No doubt, Sir, no doubt.—I defy any man in the ship to say that I am a backbiter, even against my wife, with whom I have a sort of lawful right to deal candidly.
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper
Would the slanderer, or backbiter, or hypocrite, indulge their habits if they realized this truth?
From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by Knowles King
I hev told her to her face and I will not be a backbiter.
From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
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