backstabbing
Example Sentences
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While the potential for score-settling makes job applicants sweat, it isn’t as if people are constantly backstabbing one another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
In nonviolent settings, it leads to mean-girl-style ostracism or political backstabbing around the corporate watercooler.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2026
She won her first film role in 1963’s “13 Frightened Girls” as a diplomat’s daughter but found greater renown as a backstabbing schemer on the ABC soap “Peyton Place” a few years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
This was not the case with “Boston Rob” Mariano, a wildcard mid-season addition who immediately set about backstabbing everyone in his way, including other Traitors.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
I hadn’t recognized him in his new helmet, but it was my old backstabbing buddy Ethan Nakamura.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
