backbites
- present tense form of backbite (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Here's an unthankful spiteful wretch! the good gentleman vouchsafed to make him his companion, because my husband put him into a few rags, and now see how the unrude rascal backbites him!
From Every Man out of His Humour by Jonson, Ben
One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
