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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
backstab .
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Examples
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Well, let's see-the party of NO has called the President of the United States a Liar, McCain backstabs the President in his "anti healthcare reform manifesto", the minority whip demands secession if reform is passed and now the gubernatorial candidate for the grand state of VA drops the "F" bomb-all in 48 hours.
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Rooney, who uses prostituted women and backstabs his wife when not swearing into TV cameras or running after a plastic ball of air, has been contacted by investigators looking into the News of the World's phone hacking foibles.
This week: Sathya Sai Baba, George Osborne, Wayne Rooney 2011
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No more Clintons in the white house less she backstabs him later down the line.
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He let himself fall in love with some broad at the beginning of his double-0 career and she almost backstabs him.
Early Buzz: Quantum of Solace is No Casino Royale | /Film 2008
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We might not like that bully at work, but in the popular imagination, she'll always have a job: the manager who backstabs her way to the middle, the bitch who boils the bunny in the office coffeepot.
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No Black Messiah or a pol with a long history of backstabs and treachery against his own running in 2008.
Maybe it's time to end this cruel neutrality... and to dress up like a panda... Ann Althouse 2008
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The story, created by cherry-picking a few outrageous lines from the Jeopardy! champion's generally modest and self-effacing blog, was a simple one: ingrateful winner slams, bashes, blasts, jabs, bites, and even backstabs the show.
Bob Harris: Ken Jennings, Icarus, and Miss Puerto Rico: A Theory of Why Our Leadership Sucks 2008
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Then out of right field she backstabs them all in a viscious coup as all the Hillary alliance come around and deem her worthy.
Does popularity as governor qualify you to be president? 2008
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Lieberman is a squirrelly little opportunist who backstabs his own party while his election coffers grow fat from the contributions of war profiteers his petty bellicosity has done so much to enrich.
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Much more than the whispers and the backstabs I endured so long ago.
blu94anjel Diary Entry blu94anjel 2006
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