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backbiting
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back·bite  (bkbt)
v. back·bit (-bt), back·bit·ten (-btn), back·bit·ing, back·bites
v.tr.
To speak spitefully or slanderously about (another).
v.intr.
To speak spitefully or slanderously about a person.
backbiter n.
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backbiting
noun slander, abuse, spite, gossip, smearing, malice, maligning, defamation, vilification, denigration, bitchiness (slang), calumny, disparagement, muckraking, vituperation, spitefulness, cattiness (informal), scandalmongering, detraction, calumniation Corporate backbiting is nothing new.
Translations
backbiting [ˈbækbaɪtɪŋ] N → murmuración f
backbiting [ˈbækbaɪtɪŋ] n → médisances fpl
backbiting [ˈbækˌbaɪtɪŋ] n → maldicenze fpl
backbiting [ˈbækˌbaɪtɪŋ] n → maldicenze fpl


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Tea Cake had more good nature under his toe-nails than they had in their so-called Christian hearts, She better not hear none of them old backbiters talking about her husband
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Needless to say, he was a controversial figure: Jean Bodin attacked him in 1581 as "the greatest sorcerer of his age,"(51) and four years later Andre Thevet lamented that "had it pleased God that Agrippa should have drowned only himself in that abyss of impiety, we would not today be faced with such a heap of atheists, backbiters and lampooners as this century has produced .
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