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Definition of backbiting in English: backbitingnoun ˈbakbʌɪtɪŋˈbækˌbaɪdɪŋ mass nounMalicious talk about someone who is not present. 背后中伤 members have grown tired of the backbiting in the group as modifier there were backbiting accusations among some sections of the press Example sentencesExamples - It's that world of intrigue, of plotting, spin and backbiting that he will be bringing to life in his new weekly column for the Evening Press that begins tomorrow.
- Of course, by the end of the fortnight, this temporary relative calm will have descended into a tense mix of squabbling, resentment and backbiting, as our abject failure dawns on most of us.
- But people don't know the background of arguments and backbiting that has been going on over the state of the equipment and their refusal to give us concession prices.
- In recent years, both councils have descended into counterproductive bickering and backbiting far too often.
- It seems that girls are engaging in more backbiting, gossip and trying to control other girls' behavior; often it becomes violent.
- I hope he won't let the momentum gained here be drowned in yet more backbiting.
- He advised people against indulging in backbiting.
- As a result, backbiting and betrayal was kept to a minimum.
- They never use profane language, bear false witness, engage in slander, gossip or backbiting, or even listen to such debasing talk.
- Many of them have bad or at least petty motives - backbiting, the desire to gossip or trade in information for advantage, revenge.
- Today, however, it looks more like public politics has entirely sunk to the level of petty personal backbiting, where government ministers can be judged on gossip rather than policy.
- He's had it up to here (source pointed at the middle of their forehead) with the backbiting that goes on in the music industry.
- ‘I have never liked unfairness and backbiting,’ adds Fiennes.
- In the absence of coherent arguments, the discussion quickly descended into backbiting and spats.
- The girls changed agents, changed publishers, and were, as you might expect, subject to a certain amount of backbiting and jealousy among the writing community.
- All it seems to achieve is in-fighting and backbiting and actually does more harm to community relations than good’.
- But backbiting by the Opposition leader did not sway the organisers.
- There was tremendous in-fighting, factionalism, backbiting, accusations about whose guru was on the highest path and so on.
- With little to occupy their inner lives, they settle on sophomoric backbiting and relentless self-aggrandisement as the closest achievable thing to an actually mature expression of emotion or contact between two human beings.
- Instead of continued squabbling and backbiting, all parties concerned should now concentrate their efforts on what lies ahead and not make the entire public health profession continue to suffer.
Synonyms malicious talk, spiteful talk, slander, libel, defamation, abuse, character assassination, scandalmongering, disparagement, denigration, vilification, vituperation, calumny, revilement insults, slurs, aspersions informal bitching, bitchiness, cattiness, mud-slinging, bad-mouthing British informal slagging off, slagging, rubbishing
Derivativesverb ˈbakbʌɪtˈbækˌbaɪt [no object]Talk maliciously about someone who is not present. 背后中伤 they backbite about their colleagues Example sentencesExamples - with object we don't cheat or backbite anyone
- Instead of attending to their work, your workmen waste their time in gossip and backbiting about you.
- Everyone seems to be plotting and backbiting against everyone else in the local Labour party, which makes identifying the source of the whispering campaign extremely difficult.
- At this some male chauvinist of the village started feeling worried about her knowledge and activities and started backbiting and accusing her of being a member of a banned outfit.
noun She went on to accuse ‘that little band of backbiters that surrounds him’ of undermining the party, her party. Example sentencesExamples - In every sermon he would rail against backbiters, slanderers, hypocrites, perverts, etc.
- The winners just kept flowing, but growing fame also brought him his share of jealous backbiters, and he acquired the nickname ‘The Tinman’ because of a Piggott-like love of money.
Definition of backbiting in US English: backbitingnounˈbakˌbīdiNGˈbækˌbaɪdɪŋ Malicious talk about someone who is not present. 背后中伤 members have grown tired of the backbiting in the group as modifier there were backbiting accusations among some sections of the press Example sentencesExamples - It's that world of intrigue, of plotting, spin and backbiting that he will be bringing to life in his new weekly column for the Evening Press that begins tomorrow.
- As a result, backbiting and betrayal was kept to a minimum.
- He's had it up to here (source pointed at the middle of their forehead) with the backbiting that goes on in the music industry.
- Today, however, it looks more like public politics has entirely sunk to the level of petty personal backbiting, where government ministers can be judged on gossip rather than policy.
- Of course, by the end of the fortnight, this temporary relative calm will have descended into a tense mix of squabbling, resentment and backbiting, as our abject failure dawns on most of us.
- But backbiting by the Opposition leader did not sway the organisers.
- ‘I have never liked unfairness and backbiting,’ adds Fiennes.
- In the absence of coherent arguments, the discussion quickly descended into backbiting and spats.
- There was tremendous in-fighting, factionalism, backbiting, accusations about whose guru was on the highest path and so on.
- It seems that girls are engaging in more backbiting, gossip and trying to control other girls' behavior; often it becomes violent.
- Instead of continued squabbling and backbiting, all parties concerned should now concentrate their efforts on what lies ahead and not make the entire public health profession continue to suffer.
- They never use profane language, bear false witness, engage in slander, gossip or backbiting, or even listen to such debasing talk.
- The girls changed agents, changed publishers, and were, as you might expect, subject to a certain amount of backbiting and jealousy among the writing community.
- All it seems to achieve is in-fighting and backbiting and actually does more harm to community relations than good’.
- But people don't know the background of arguments and backbiting that has been going on over the state of the equipment and their refusal to give us concession prices.
- In recent years, both councils have descended into counterproductive bickering and backbiting far too often.
- I hope he won't let the momentum gained here be drowned in yet more backbiting.
- With little to occupy their inner lives, they settle on sophomoric backbiting and relentless self-aggrandisement as the closest achievable thing to an actually mature expression of emotion or contact between two human beings.
- He advised people against indulging in backbiting.
- Many of them have bad or at least petty motives - backbiting, the desire to gossip or trade in information for advantage, revenge.
Synonyms malicious talk, spiteful talk, slander, libel, defamation, abuse, character assassination, scandalmongering, disparagement, denigration, vilification, vituperation, calumny, revilement |