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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
backbite .
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Examples
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The women hated her, backbit and would not make friends, because of the fatal instantaneous power she wielded to spin men's blood and pitch their souls derelict on that impassioned current.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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It was only such as had reason to dread the secret communication between closet and housetop that feared her tongue; if she spoke loud, she never spoke false, or backbit in the dark.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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'Lo ye now, here standeth Misfortune backbit by Envy.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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