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Definition of back-stabbing in English: back-stabbingnoun mass nounThe action of criticizing someone in a treacherous manner despite pretending friendship with them. 暗箭伤人 the media world of back-stabbing, scheming, and downright malice 明争暗斗、钩心斗角、人心险恶的传媒界。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘I am absolutely appalled at the mere suggestion this might have happened,’ she says in an outraged tone, vowing to adopt a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to back-stabbing.
- Anyway you slice it, back-stabbing is hurtful, deceitful and disloyal.
- Panic, incompetence, in-fighting and back-stabbing were all documented by the impartial hand of the civil service.
- It's a cool story - theft, corruption, conspiracy theories, mud-slinging and back-stabbing.
- Yet amid the betrayal and back-stabbing, the cruelty and crime, the play ultimately has a happy, almost spiritual, finale, shaking the audience out of its 21st century complacency to ask: has anything really changed?
- ‘We need to remain united, never to return to the bickering and back-stabbing of the past and we need to remain positive and outward looking,’ he said.
- For example, there is no need to worry that the smart machine will indulge in tale-bearing and back-biting, much less plan palace intrigues and carry out malicious back-stabbing.
- The back-stabbing in Beverly Hills and having to churn out sitcoms on a conveyor belt did not agree with him.
- Television is a world of giant egos and back-stabbing.
- The double-dealing and back-stabbing illustrated the attitude of the Boston Irish gangster to informers.
- But no saga of corporate back-stabbing could possibly match it, not least because in Rome, back-stabbing was more than a metaphor.
- Mind you, I was a little bemused to read the article say: ‘Is my peripheral vision good enough to detect back-stabbing?’
- Having distinct responsibilities allowed the crew to avoid turf battles, competition, jealousy and back-stabbing.
- And I have to say that the constant histrionics and tantrums made a French workplace much more fun than the repressed emotions and silent back-stabbing of an English office.
- Such directness would have lent a strategic clarity needed to link ends and means in statecraft, reinforced the war's objectives, and reduced a fair amount of second-guessing and downright back-stabbing at home and abroad.
- As for ‘violence’, a very popular topic in the echolalist edifying ‘discourses’, the one they know best but never write about is character assassination and back-stabbing.
- Amid all the rehearsals there are love triangles, back-stabbing, popular girls and a very unconvincing school playboy.
- After the lying and back-stabbing that took place this week, relations between the housemates have degenerated into drunken abuse and name-calling.
- True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
- Now the wheel is turning towards romance and intrigue and back-stabbing in other settings, with game shows, suspense and youth shows for variety.
Synonyms duplicity, treachery, betrayal, double-crossing, faithlessness, unfaithfulness, untrustworthiness, infidelity, bad faith, disloyalty, perfidy, perfidiousness, treason, breach of trust, fraud, fraudulence, underhandedness, cheating, dishonesty, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, falseness, stab in the back, lying, mendacity, trickery, two-facedness
adjective (of a person) engaging in back-stabbing; critical of other people despite pretending friendship with them. back-stabbing officials protecting their patch with petty politics Example sentencesExamples - I've often witnessed this back-stabbing phenomenon among nurses in the hospital, and each time I do I say a silent prayer of thanks that the majority of my colleagues are men.
- Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
- Beyond the power plays, the million dollar deals, and the back-stabbing tycoons and their mistresses, we were given a glimpse of a world about which we can only fantasise.
- It's a very dog-eat-dog, back-stabbing business.
- Who wouldn't be distracted by back-stabbing teammates?
- It won't help you achieve a spurious state of spiritual well-being, or help flush toxins out of your system - but it will help you to understand what your boss, your back-stabbing colleague or that girl at the water cooler really think of you.
- Using just two prisoners, they showed that they could find a better solution to the dilemma than the back-stabbing scenario if both played a particular quantum move.
- Every auto buying experience I've had involved the worst kind of back-stabbing slimy salesmen until now.
- At the same time it's a couple of levels below what I do with the baboons, which involves looking at who is successful in the highly competitive, back-stabbing baboon societies and what this has to do with physiology.
- He asked me how I put up with being with all those back-stabbing girls in the company who just wanted the spotlight, and I asked him how he put up with all the public school idiots and the violence.
- You see, he has learned a thing or two from my own back-stabbing acts of rapine ferocity, and doubtless he is applying it to his own affairs.
- They pocket fat checks and bonuses in exchange for which they have entered the back-stabbing business.
- There was still a belief amongst many people that the army had not lost the war but had been let down by back-stabbing politicians.
- But I don't want nice - I want those vicious looks and back-stabbing remarks.
- Well, if there's anything that Ken hates more than double-crossing, back-stabbing business partners, it's big band music.
- But he, as only history knows, was an inept military commander, a lying, back-stabbing political opportunist, and, for good measure, mostly illiterate.
- Nor did I raise this news-paper to its present position as the finest in the Republic by leaning on the back-stabbing pack of boars that makes up my editorial staff.
- No matter how hard we try, we can't have power over a mercurial economy, back-stabbing co-workers or temperamental managers.
- It is not fun fishing with a crowd of back-stabbing locals behind you.
Derivativesnoun When they sang about back-stabbers, they weren't just complaining about haters - they were indicting them. Example sentencesExamples - He was more of a manipulator and fickle back-stabber.
- I've never been a back-stabber and I've always been open and up front, and all the managers I have worked with will say the same.
- But now, you're a betrayer, and a back-stabber at that.
- But rather than the racial and gender melting pot that he expected, he encountered a world of gangsters, thieves and back-stabbers.
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