Backbiting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Backbiting is a noun meaning The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
Meaning
The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
More Meanings
- Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
- present participle and gerund of backbite
Example Sentences
Am I to have a backbiting wife?
Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.
She was not given to backbiting—though, when stirred by any motive near to her own belongings, she would say an illnatured word or two.
[…]ending his epistle by saying, "that his uncle having doubtless lent his ear to some old woman's tales and backbiting, he did not choose to place his property in the hands of a spendthrift,[…]
Word Forms
- backbitings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bitch, slandering, evil-speaking, sliming, mudslinging, slander.
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