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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
backbite . - noun Plural form of
backbite .
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Examples
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Puh-leeze, Sam is the master of nasty backbites, what makes you think if he had someone on the line for 15 minutes he wouldn't use every bit of innuendo he could to make himslef look good.
Is Mayor Creepy running a recall push poll already? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson.
Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson.
Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson. FIDO The Dog 2008
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The Lone Voice: Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson.
Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson. FIDO The Dog 2008
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson. FIDO The Dog 2008
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The voice of the boys is universally for the Union, against all traitors, whether those who openly meet them in the field, or the more dastardly coward that remains at home and backbites, and aids the enemy by words of comfort, and spreading dissensions in the rear.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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Reply Obj. 3: He that backbites his brother, seems to detract the law, in so far as he despises the precept of love for one's neighbor: while he that strives to sever friendship seems to act more directly against this precept.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Suppose your neighbor is a horsethief, or a liar, who belongs to another political party, and backbites, and steals your wood, and kicks your dog, and puts up jobs on you, how you going to love that neighbor as yourself?
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