To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
To speak badly of an absent individual.
One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.
From Middle English bakbiten, bacbiten, equivalent to back- + bite. Cognate with Icelandic bakbíta (“to backbite, vilify”).
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