Sekirov Dictionary

backbiting

adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3

adjective1

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Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
- Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge. — 1580

noun1

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The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
- […]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,[…] — 1838

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