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backbiting
Part of speech: NounThe act of slandering the absent.
Usage examples "backbiting":- But he is always backbiting and sneering; he admires nothing and nobody." - "Love Me Little, Love Me Long", Charles Reade Edition: 10 Language: English.
- You're a spy and a backbiting tell- tale, that's what you are. - "Love Eternal", H. Rider Haggard.
- Well, John, I would rather have the backbiting. - "The Measure of a Man", Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr.