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- adjective Alternative spelling of
backstabbing .
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Examples
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Billed as "a new comedy about back-stabbing, ass-kissing, and survival of the sneakiest," it has been directed by Gary Graves with a grand sense of timing and snarky revenge.
George Heymont: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures George Heymont 2011
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So, for instance, these bad habits may include: smoking, constantly using expletives, excessive shopping or back-stabbing others.
Engy Abdelkader: A Ramadan Prayer Engy Abdelkader 2011
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Elena's back-stabbing ways may come back to haunt her on The Vampire Diaries.
Which Vampire Diaries Original Is Coming Back with a Vengeance? 2011
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Gabby Deeds Kendra Lee Oberhauser, a fast talking, narcissistic, and extremely manipulative hedge fund manager at Icarus Wealth Management Group who has clawed her way up the corporate ladder by becoming a back-stabbing bitch.
George Heymont: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures George Heymont 2011
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Trollish behaviour and back-stabbing are never okay.
“Who, If I Cried Out, Would Hear Me?” On Twitter, Tales And Tragedy | Her Bad Mother 2009
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For many of the cast members, the show's consistency through the decades has allowed for precisely the sort of security and comfort that their murdering, comatose, back-stabbing, amnesiac, time-travelling characters always found so elusive.
Life After 'Life' Is a Mystery Tripp Whetsell 2011
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And far from marking a break with the cosy business-as-usual of French politics, Sarkozy's presidency has been mired in corrosive scandals, not least the long-running Clearstream, Karachigate and Bettencourt affairs, stuffed full of complex allegations of corruption, back-stabbing and wire-tapping.
Nicolas Sarkozy: Is France falling in love again? | Peter Beaumont 2011
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In a back-stabbing business he also seems to genuinely be a comic that other comics like – no mean feat in itself.
Six to watch: comedy panel show hosts Johnny Dee 2010
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This from a man who has shown himself to be devious, slippery, back-stabbing and unconcerned with such things as market research.
The Apprentice won by non-stop ideas factory Tom Pellerau 2011
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So, for instance, these bad habits may include: smoking, constantly using expletives, excessive shopping or back-stabbing others.
Engy Abdelkader: A Ramadan Prayer Engy Abdelkader 2011
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