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- noun Plural form of
backbiter .
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Examples
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Those are called backbiters who are not content just to know but rush ahead and judge.
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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Withstands the slings and arrows of jealous backbiters and schemers, pines for home, is susceptible to the advances of lovers.
Historical Fiction 2010
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If anythhing's making the country more insecure and look weak, it's all the backbiters here at home who should be getting in the ranks and helping to be part of the solution and not part of the problem!
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Women should learn to be at peace with thier neighbours, not to be backbiters or busybodies.
Interview Thursday. "No Woman Should Lose her Identity" Says ALOTED 2009
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Women should learn to be at peace with thier neighbours, not to be backbiters or busybodies.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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And then the smaller lice: the backbiters, the haters, the Guild of Peepers, the moralists, the patriots ...
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Obama has to spend energy to completly demolish the strangelehold they have on the party. .right now those backbiters are scheming and planning an insurgency on the convention floor as a 'symbolic ballot' to HRC.
Obama Took Heat Early On For Being Too Soft On Hillary, Remember? 2009
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To their credit, les grognards reputedly complained in the presence of Napoleon himself rather than being backbiters.
What's a Grognard? James Maliszewski 2008
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He must be relying on all his military experience and beach-time credibilty to attack the “naysayers” and “backbiters” who question a failed missile defense system that over the years has proven costly and unworkable.
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Yesterday on Fox News, Rep. Dana Rohrbacher (R-CA) attacked Democratic “backbiters” and “naysayers” — including guest Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA) — for questioning the program.
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