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He seems genuinely to have been stung by his new reputation as a two-timing back-stabber, and though his post-Conan ratings are not disastrous they aren't what they used to be either.
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Joe, what a back-stabber you are, disloyal and two-faced!
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If he doesn't back Clark, then he looks like a wimp and a back-stabber.
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You've just met the guy and you're telling him about the back-stabber in your office, the fight you had with your sister, the details of your recent root canal.
Jag Carrao: The Rules Redux: Five Dating Mistakes Women Make...And How You Can Avoid/Undo Them 2009
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Dave Navarro was seen as a sex fiend shown above; John Popper was a disgusting pig; Dee Snyder was a duplicitous back-stabber; and Joan Rivers gave a blow job to David Lee Roth!
Archive 2009-01-04 Toby O'B 2009
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The man was a drunken back-stabber, morally a Nixon republican, who in later years played a leading role in defeating universal health care with his incompetence and hostility to progressive ideas.
Hillary's Predecessor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Called GOP "The Party Of Ideas," Too 2009
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He was an ungracious, two-faced back-stabber who did everything in his power to undermine President Washington as Secretary of State.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Any VCers in the Vicinity of Monticello Tomorrow? 2009
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It's a convenient narrative, one that, as Harper's Kevin Baker recently noted, is a recycling of an old right-wing myth in the U.S. -- the back-stabber, the bogeyman responsible for any and all perceived failures on the part of the U.S.
Alex Koppelman: Think There's Anti-War Bias in the Press? Think Again. 2008
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She may have been a gold-digger, a back-stabber or a ball-breaker - but she was never a hypocrite.
What I'm Reading Sage 2008
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She may have been a gold-digger, a back-stabber or a ball-breaker - but she was never a hypocrite.
Archive 2008-01-01 Sage 2008
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