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backbiting

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10 lettersSorted abbcgiikntStarts with BEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.

Word origin

From Middle English bakbitynge, bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to backbite + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • […]ending his epistle by saying, "that his uncle having doubtless lent his ear to some old woman's tales and backbiting, he did not choose to place his property in the hands of a spendthrift,[…]
  • She was not given to backbiting—though, when stirred by any motive near to her own belongings, she would say an illnatured word or two.
  • Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.

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