How To Use backbite In A Sentence
- Were you, like me, brought up to be graceful? don't give them the satisfaction, don't backbite, don't bite back. Archive 2007-01-01
- His classmate do not enjoy his company because he always backbite others.
- The "backbiter" is frequently seen, in most unlovely form, and two persons gossiping with an "unseen witness" in the shape of an avenging friend, looking on and waiting for his opportunity to strike! Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
- Suppose your neighbor is a horsethief, or a liar, who belongs to another political party, and backbites, and steals your wood, and kicks your dog, and puts up jobs on you, how you going to love that neighbor as yourself? Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899
- He points out shortfalls in his opponents platforms and gets called 'negative' for it, while his opponents barf up crap and name call and backbite and are called geniuses. Republicans Win Ohio Special Election
- Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others. Letter to a Friend
- He who blames one to his face is a hero, but he who backbites is a coward.
- Puh-leeze, Sam is the master of nasty backbites, what makes you think if he had someone on the line for 15 minutes he wouldn't use every bit of innuendo he could to make himslef look good. Is Mayor Creepy running a recall push poll already? (Jack Bog's Blog)
- Every sermon he would rail against backbiters, slanderers, hypocrites, perverts, etc.
- Reply Obj. 1: A tale-bearer is called a backbiter in so far as he speaks ill of another; yet he differs from a backbiter since he intends not to speak ill as such, but to say anything that may stir one man against another, though it be good simply, and yet has a semblance of evil through being unpleasant to the hearer. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
