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backbiting
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noun
  1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
    • 1303, Robert Manning of Brune, Handlyng synne
    • :No custummable bakbytyng God....
    • 1862, Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
    • :Not given to .
verb
  1. (present participle of, backbite)
adjective
  1. A person who slanders or speaks badly of a person without that person's knowledge.
    • 1580, Thomas Tusser, A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie
    • :Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.
    • 1€873, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy
    • :Am I to have a wife?
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