How To Use Backbite In A Sentence
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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
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His classmate do not enjoy his company because he always backbite others.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He who blames one to his face is a hero, but he who backbites is a coward.
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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)
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Every sermon he would rail against backbiters, slanderers, hypocrites, perverts, etc.
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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
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The voice of the boys is universally for the Union, against all traitors, whether those who openly meet them in the field, or the more dastardly coward that remains at home and backbites, and aids the enemy by words of comfort, and spreading dissensions in the rear.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
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And amid a hail of derisory images came the raucous cry of a backbiter: "Who stole the weather, Powell?
Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
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The Lone Voice: Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson.
Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson.
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Now just as the railer intends to injure the honor of the person he rails, the backbiter to depreciate a good name, and the tale-bearer to destroy friendship, so too the derider intends to shame the person he derides.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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No resident burgess is in anger to call a bailiff or wardemen by any name such as thief, knave, backbiter, whoreson, false, foresworn, cuckold, or bawd.
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It has just about started realizing, after much needless suffering of its own from blowback and backbite, that surviving the whirlwind of globalization takes smarts rather than brute force.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room
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Due to the fact that they are prone to backbite each other I keep my words very short to them.
Zebratown
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Accordingly a backbiter is a murderer _occasionally, _ since by his words he gives another man an occasion for hating or despising his neighbor.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson.
Archive 2008-12-01
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5: 16, "Be not called a tale-bearer [Douay: 'whisperer']" says: "i.e. a backbiter.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Wherefore, properly speaking, to backbite is to speak ill of an absent person in order to blacken his good name.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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'And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.
The Story of the Volsungs
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She is a snake a backbiter a backstabber a lier a cheat and she learned well from hubby Bill the cheater, lier, robber and they both are suffering from ADD and Bipolar sickness.
Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico
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Now who is that so base and ungrateful as to rise from a table where such delicious victuals are served and "backbite" the neighbor who prepares it?
" Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers
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McCain is not so much a maverick as he is a backbiter.
McCain: Maverick, Mad Man or Sad Clown
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He who blames one to his face is a hero, but he who backbites is a coward.
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash.
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He who blames one to his face is a hero, but he who backbites is a coward.
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He who blames one to his face is a hero, but he who backbites is a coward.
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I normally love this show, but seriously, can we try to keep the reality-tv backbiter attitude out of it?
Bristle. « Love | Peace | Ohana
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19, “And meddle not with such as flatter with their mouth,” as indeed commonly they who reproach the absent, flatter the present; a backbiter is a face-flatterer.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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‘And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.
The Story of the Volsungs
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Reply Obj. 3: He that backbites his brother, seems to detract the law, in so far as he despises the precept of love for one's neighbor: while he that strives to sever friendship seems to act more directly against this precept.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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He who blames one to his face is a hero, but he who backbites is a coward.
