backbite

A Republican member looks past the current backbiting to the supposed GOP Majority next year.

Delightful, hospitable Dublin is also a provincial town, given to gossip and backbiting.

There is no parallel to the prying, tattling, backbiting littleness of the place elsewhere in the world.

May we always know how to drive away a backbiting tongue with an angry countenance, as the north wind driveth away rain.

The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

He fancied that maldicenza, gossip further spiced with backbiting, would form the chief baggage of his wit.