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backbiting

/bak-bahyt/US // ˈbækˌbaɪt //UK // (ˈbækˌbaɪt) //

背信弃义,背叛,恃强凌弱,背叛行为

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    back·bit, back·bit·ten or back·bit; back·bit·ing.

    • : to attack the character or reputation of.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    back·bit, back·bit·ten or back·bit; back·bit·ing.

    • : to speak unfavorably or slanderously of a person who is not present.

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Examples

  • Trouble seemed to arise not from big issues like race but from petty gossip and backbiting.

  • Never mind recent reports of backbiting and fingerpointing within the Perry camp.

  • The Koran warns against “backbiting,” and so does the Torah, which calls it “evil tongue.”

  • Matt Latimer on the petty backbiting that has plagued his tenure from the start.

  • Of course, now that the reorganization is official, the speculation stops and the backbiting from disenchanted executives begins.

  • He hated any species of backbiting, and he had heard of Burleigh as an adept in the art, and a man to be feared.

  • But I cannot bear that a slanderous backbiting tongue should make you think that I have seen no service.

  • To do so is to engage my daughter to sorrow, and hope deferred, and miserable backbiting!

  • For those were happy times when backbiting among artists took the more manly form of poisoning.

  • They were much given to gluttony and drinking; and there was an unthinkable amount of scandal and backbiting and jealousy.