backbiter

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• The widow was no gossip, no backbiter, but a woman of opinions and a nimble tongue undeterred by fear or favor.

• I know thee for a liar, a deceiver, a backbiter, and a spirit of insatiable malevolence.

• The flatterer, the backbiter, the spy,—these find here a rich soil.

• Would the slanderer, or backbiter, or hypocrite, indulge their habits if they realized this truth?

• Here is something to confute the old backbiter,' and he clapped with his thick short hand a heavy leather pocket-book.