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Backbite   Listen
verb
Backbite  v. t.  (past backbit; past part. backbitten; pres. part. backbiting)  To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).





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"Backbite" Quotes from Famous Books



... confess my error, and beg you will forgive it, as I have forgiven you so many. Let us pitch ill-nature into the sea—as the boys say—and henceforth backbite no more. Go on with your story. You were talking of the grand style in which the sons of your master the merchant went to the college of the ...
— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Words linked to "Backbite" :   backbiter, bitch, complain, kvetch, kick, plain, sound off, quetch


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