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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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Month by month, for a year past, conditions in the parish under him had been growing worse and worse; until it seemed that now, turn which way he would, he encountered only wrangling, backbiting, scandal, and jealousy.
Pollyanna by Porter, Eleanor H. View in context
Very little open quarrelling ever took place amongst them; but backbiting and talebearing were universal.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
I allays offer it along with the sherry, though sister Glegg will have it I'm so extravagant; and as for liking to have my clothes tidy, and not go a fright about the house, there's nobody in the parish can say anything against me in respect o' backbiting and making mischief, for I don't wish anybody any harm; and nobody loses by sending me a porkpie, for my pies are fit to show with the best o' my neighbors'; and the linen's so in order as if I was to die to-morrow I shouldn't be ashamed.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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