backbiter

Accordingly a backbiter is a murderer _occasionally, _ since by his words he gives another man an occasion for hating or despising his neighbor.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

Reply Obj. 1: A tale-bearer is called a backbiter in so far as he speaks ill of another; yet he differs from a backbiter since he intends not to speak ill as such, but to say anything that may stir one man against another, though it be good simply, and yet has a semblance of evil through being unpleasant to the hearer.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

'And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.

The Story of the Volsungs

The "backbiter" is frequently seen, in most unlovely form, and two persons gossiping with an "unseen witness" in the shape of an avenging friend, looking on and waiting for his opportunity to strike!

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance

19, “And meddle not with such as flatter with their mouth,” as indeed commonly they who reproach the absent, flatter the present; a backbiter is a face-flatterer.

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

‘And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.

The Story of the Volsungs

She is a snake a backbiter a backstabber a lier a cheat and she learned well from hubby Bill the cheater, lier, robber and they both are suffering from ADD and Bipolar sickness.

Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico

I normally love this show, but seriously, can we try to keep the reality-tv backbiter attitude out of it?

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And amid a hail of derisory images came the raucous cry of a backbiter: "Who stole the weather, Powell?"

Wild Dreams of Reality, 5

McCain is not so much a maverick as he is a backbiter.

McCain: Maverick, Mad Man or Sad Clown