Example Sentences

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I knew it meant “dog,” and I thought at the time they were backbiting him because he never socialized.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

Their editors were refined men of cultivated tastes, whose pet temptations were backbiting, mean slander, and the snobbish worship of anything clothed in wealth and the outward appearances of conventional respectability.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore