Associations to the word «Backbiter»

Wiktionary

BACKBITER, noun. Person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of sight and hearing of the second person.

Dictionary definition

BACKBITER, noun. One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne