backbiting

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

背信弃义,背叛,恃强凌弱,背叛行为

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

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
back·bit, back·bit·ten or back·bit; back·bit·ing.
- : to speak unfavorably or slanderously of a person who is not present.

nounhateful talk

Synonyms

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.

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

背信弃义,背叛,恃强凌弱,背叛行为

v.有主动词 verb

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
back·bit, back·bit·ten or back·bit; back·bit·ing.
- : to speak unfavorably or slanderously of a person who is not present.

nounhateful talk

Synonyms

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.