backbite
verb (used with object)
to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
was backbiting
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past progressiveof backbite.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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And yet within weeks there was backbiting and infighting.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024
The odd, vivid term sometimes used for it was backbiting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were "all there."
From 100%: the Story of a Patriot by Upton Sinclair
