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Definition of Backbite

Backbite
Backbite Back"bite`, v. i. [2nd back, n., + bite] To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). --Spenser.
Backbite
Backbite Back"bite`, v. i. To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. --Shak.

Meaning of Backbite from wikipedia

- Backbiting or tale-bearing is to slander someone in their absence — to bite them behind their back. Originally, backbiting referred to an unsporting attack...
- Backbiter is a protopunk band from Los Angeles, California that has received national recognition. They pla**** their first show October 23, 1991, at the...
- vinyl re-press of You Come Before You done through German record label Backbite Records, stating that the band had not been consulted for the release....
- Sneerwell. Maria herself then enters, fleeing the attentions of Sir Benjamin Backbite and his uncle, Crabtree. Mrs. Candour enters and ironically talks about...
- conduct that are prohibited or discouraged by Baháʼu'lláh's teachings: Backbiting and gossipping are prohibited and denounced. Drinking and selling alcohol...
- Young Ward Royal National Theatre 2011 The School for Scandal Sir Benjamin Backbite Barbican Centre When Did You Last See My Mother? Ian Trafalgar Studios...
- watchable as ever, Succession's final season concludes the saga of the backbiting Roy family on a typically brilliant – and colorfully profane – high note...
- Marlow Birmingham Stage Company 1998 The School for Scandal Sir Benjamin Backbite Royal Shakespeare Company 1998–1999 Much Ado About Nothing Don Pedro International...
- asked what they were for, Satan replied, "The honey I put on the lips of backbiters so that they achieve their aim. The ashes I put on the faces of orphans...
- spy not, neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting)[] . And fear Allâh...