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Meanings of backbite in English
Portuguese
dizer coisas xulas Catalan
calumniar Usage of backbite in English
1
If you don't want her to pity or backbite, let her laugh.
2
Therefore a man does not sin if he does not withstand those who backbite others.
3
The rest of us moved to a downstairs sitting room, there to backbite and discuss events.
4
A parcel of old women who delight in having some one to run down and backbite.
5
He could not backbite, nor envy, nor prevaricate, nor jump at mean motives for generous acts.
6
All this while Michelangelo's enemies, headed by Nanni di Baccio Bigio, continued to calumniate and backbite.
7
And spy not, neither backbite one another.
8
But Uncle does know how lies taste; refined sugar-sweet, not molasses-sweet like truth, with its sulphurous backbite.
9
The only thing in which all parties agreed was to backbite the manager, and cabal against his regulations.
10
Yea, rather than thou wilt go without it, thou wilt dissemble, lie, backbite thy neighbour, and an hundred other tricks thou wilt have.
11
The first thing old Backbite said when he heard of it was, 'H'm!
12
In the bitchy world of ad land the cackling backbites will be well aimed.
13
I call him Sir Benjamin Backbite; and I believe he hates me worse than Asmodeus himself.
14
Earthly gossip always backbites, you know.
15
He backbites her in revenge.
16
He never backbites his friends.
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