Results for Backbiting
Usage examples for Backbiting:
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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