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backbiter
Part of speech: Participle Usage examples "backbiter":- I took you for an honest man until a quarter of an hour ago, and now I know that you are as dirty and as despicable a hypocrite and backbiter as any in the world! - "In Direst Peril", David Christie Murray.
- These citations show that the opinions held by Trumbull, as to the inefficiency of the directing force of the Union armies, up to the time when Grant was called to take command at Washington, were not those of a mere fault- finder and backbiter. - "The Life of Lyman Trumbull", Horace White.
- I hev told her to her face and I will not be a backbiter. - "The Measure of a Man", Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr.