backbite
verb (used with object)
to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
is backbiting
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present progressiveof backbite (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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To an American friend He writes:— The worst human quality and the most great sin is backbiting, more especially when it emanates from the tongues of the believers of God.
From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by J. E. (John Ebenezer) Esslemont
Therefore not every blackening of a good name is backbiting.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
