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Examples of backbite
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Broadway aspirants backbite each other in a theatrical boarding house for women.
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Diana could spin one delicious backbite like that into a column.
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You have nothing to do but backbite the Chinese people.
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These females gossip, backbite, succumb regularly to the rhythmic fluctuations of their metabolisms.
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Avoid most suspicions, verily some suspicion is a sin and do not look out for faults and do not backbite one another.
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With the extended 30-minute format, there was much more time to nitpick and backbite, and much of that was documented.
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All found favor with the chipotle-braised collards, which had a surprising backbite of smoky heat laced in the supple greens.
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- Say mean things
- Backbiting or tale-bearing is to slander someone in their absence -- to bite them behind their back. Originally, backbiting referred to an unsporting attack from the rear in the blood sport of bearbaiting.
- One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter; To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone; To attack from behind or when out of earshot; To speak badly of an absent individual
- (backbiting) The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge; A person who slanders or speaks badly of a person without that person's knowledge
- (Backbiting) slandering an absent party
- Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting. For your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by servants and children.
- In Psa 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Pro 25:23, secret tale bearing or slandering; in Rom 1:30 and Co2 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.
- Speak (spitefully/badly of), slander (in absence of), libel, defame, disparage, denigrate, slur, spiteful talk
- To speak slanderously or spitefully about a person (Ps. 15:3; Rom. 1:30). Backbiting involves an element of deceit and cowardice. It should be avoided by Christians.
