backbite

Of course, now that the reorganization is official, the speculation stops and the backbiting from disenchanted executives begins.

He hated any species of backbiting, and he had heard of Burleigh as an adept in the art, and a man to be feared.

But I cannot bear that a slanderous backbiting tongue should make you think that I have seen no service.

To do so is to engage my daughter to sorrow, and hope deferred, and miserable backbiting!

For those were happy times when backbiting among artists took the more manly form of poisoning.

They were much given to gluttony and drinking; and there was an unthinkable amount of scandal and backbiting and jealousy.