Associations to the word «Backbite»
Wiktionary
BACKBITE, verb. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
BACKBITE, verb. (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
BACKBITE, verb. To speak badly of an absent individual.
BACKBITE, noun. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.
Dictionary definition
BACKBITE, verb. Say mean things.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.