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Definition of Backbite

Backbite
Backbite Back"bite`, v. i. [2nd back, n., + bite] To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). --Spenser.
Backbite
Backbite Back"bite`, v. i. To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. --Shak.

Meaning of Backbite from wikipedia

- Backbiting or tale-bearing is to slander someone in their absence — to bite them behind their back. Originally, backbiting referred to an unsporting attack...
- Backbiter is a protopunk band from Los Angeles, California that has received national recognition. They pla**** their first show October 23, 1991, at the...
- vinyl re-press of You Come Before You done through German record label Backbite Records, stating that the band had not been consulted for the release....
- Sneerwell. Maria herself then enters, fleeing the attentions of Sir Benjamin Backbite and his uncle, Crabtree. Mrs. Candour enters and ironically talks about...
- asked what they were for, Satan replied, "The honey I put on the lips of backbiters so that they achieve their aim. The ashes I put on the faces of orphans...
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- conduct that are prohibited or discouraged by Baháʼu'lláh's teachings: Backbiting and gossiping are prohibited and denounced. Drinking and selling alcohol...
- watchable as ever, Succession's final season concludes the saga of the backbiting Roy family on a typically brilliant – and colorfully profane – high note...
- "The Backbiter", "The Slanderer", or "The Scorner") is the 104th chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an, with 9 āyāt or verses. ۝ Woe to every backbiter, slanderer...
- know. I repent from it and I reject disbelief, polytheism, falsehood, backbiting, deviation, defamation, immorality, calumny and all sinfulness. I submit...