backbiting

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A person who slanders or speaks badly of a person without that person's knowledge

Am I to have a backbiting wife?.

The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge

Not given to backbiting.

Present participle of backbite
{n} reproach cast on an absent person
{i} act of slandering someone who is not present, act of gossiping, disparagement
disapproval If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work. unpleasant or cruel talk about someone who is not present
The action of slandering a person without that persons knowledge
Secret slander; detraction
A person who slanders or speaks badly of a person without that persons knowledge
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To attack from behind or when out of earshot
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One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter
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To speak badly of an absent individual
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{v} to slander an absent person
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{f} slander one who is not present, gossip, disparage, libel
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past of backbite
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{s} slandered, disparaged, belittled
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To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone
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say mean things
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To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent)
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To censure or revile the absent
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{f} slander one who is not present, gossip, disparage, libel
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