Usage examples for Backbiting:
-
Mrs.
Patten
understood
that
if
she
turned
out
ill-
crushed
cheeses,
a
just
retribution
awaited
her;
though,
I
fear,
she
made
no
particular
application
of
the
sermon
on
backbiting
"Scenes of Clerical Life", George Eliot
-
Drinking,
and
stealing,
and
lying,
and
backbiting
and
naughty
love-
making,-
but
especially
backbiting
backbiting
backbiting
those
are
the
things
that
the
Bible
says
are
wicked.
"Miss Mackenzie", Anthony Trollope
-
What
a
subject
for
the
tongues
that
were
ever
wagging,
and
complimenting,
and
backbiting
and
lying,
all
in
a
breath,
and
without
sense
or
scruple!
"Melchior's Dream and Other Tales", Juliana Horatia Ewing
Word of the day
Separated;
opened.
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