backbite
verb (used with object)
to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
backbit
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past participleof backbite.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof backbite.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
backbiteverb (used with object)to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
Example Sentences
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He was the hero of London society, which adored and backbit him alternately, and he was precisely the man whom the boy Brummell would worship.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Philip Wharton
It was only such as had reason to dread the secret communication between closet and housetop that feared her tongue; if she spoke loud, she never spoke false, or backbit in the dark.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
