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Backbiter   Listen
noun
Backbiter  n.  One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Backbiter" Quotes from Famous Books



... in every conversation into one or other of the sins of the tongue. If you would only begin to see and accept this, that every time you speak or hear about your absent neighbour what you would not like him to speak or hear about you, you are in that a talebearer, a slanderer, a backbiter, or a liar,—when you begin to see and admit that about yourself, you will not wonder at what the Bible says with such bitter indignation about the diabolical sins of the tongue. If you would just begin to-night to ...
— Bunyan Characters - First Series • Alexander Whyte



Words linked to "Backbiter" :   maligner, libeler, vilifier, traducer, detractor



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