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  • verb Alternative form of backbite.

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Examples

  • You white pple will have to come up w/a whole hell of a lot more than that to make me back-bite the person that is trying to fix your white-washed mess. maybe find a picture of him killing a couple of newborn babies then I might consider, maybe.

    Evening Buzz: Pres. Obama’s Wrong Focus? 2009

  • According to Jessica Ball, a Master Sommelier of the Associazione Italiana Sommelier, who is based in Rome, the ubiquitous granite of the Gallura region confers a flinty back-bite on this aromatic fruity and fresh white wine.

    The Subdued Side of Sardinia Cristina Slattery 2010

  • Through your misguidance the world will think that American women will lie, steal, cheat, cry, throw tantrums, whine, and back-bite to get what we want.

    DNC faces big challenge Saturday 2008

  • I know, from hearing the things Foggy's said to me about my sister, that he can back-bite like a hungry skeeter.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Anne Johnson 2009

  • I know, from hearing the things Foggy's said to me about my sister, that he can back-bite like a hungry skeeter.

    When Little Things Pile Up Anne Johnson 2009

  • Or, as we're seeing in the U.S., it allows us room to snipe and back-bite for a few more years and dig our trenches even deeper so that nobody is even listening to anyone else any more.

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2006

  • While they were willing to back-bite each other publicly on Monday, they chose to keep their postgame words private.

    USATODAY.com - Sweeps week just the beginning for UConn? 2004

  • FRUM: Reckless to invite a journalist in during the conduct of a war, to give him that kind of access, to invite people to talk to him individually, to give him lots of opportunities to back-bite, and then to extract no promise that this is for history, to allow him to print ...

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2006 2006

  • For your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by servants and children.

    What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams 1901

  • Do you not know that if we wish to dwell in his tabernacle we are not to entertain a reproach against our neighbor, nor to back-bite with our lips and I do not think there is

    Trial and Triumph Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1868

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