to say unpleasant and unkind things about someone who is not there:
I'm not short-tempered, but I do get annoyed if friends backbite me.
- He has been often blamed for this and people backbit him more than ever after his death.
- Our enemies love to revile and backbite us.
- The public seem surprised that members of such an apparently genteel profession as classical music should stoop so low as to backbite.
- If we all pull together, then we can be a successful force in world rugby again. If we bicker and backbite, then we will divide even further, and fall.
- acerbic
- acerbically
- acerbity
- acidly
- anti-cruelty
- cold-heartedly
- cruel
- cruelly
- cruelty
- cruelty to someone/something
- meanness
- mental cruelty
- merciless
- mercilessly
- mordant
- uncharitable
- uncharitably
- unchristian
- uncompassionate
- unfeeling
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