We are all friends; of course we are friends, and we all backbite each other and carry scandal and intrigue.
Roger de Backbite was forced to come in attendance upon the sovereign, but took care to keep in the rear of his august master, and to shelter behind his huge triangular shield as much as possible.
Let us pitch ill-nature into the sea--as the boys say--and henceforth backbite no more.
Wherefore, properly speaking, to backbite is to speak ill of an absent person in order to blacken his good name.
A man is said to backbite (detrahere) another, not because he detracts from the truth, but because he lessens his good name.
Therefore a man does not sin if he does not withstand those who backbite others.
Ivanhoe, too, is killed at the siege,--Sir Roger de Backbite having stabbed him in the back during the scene.
Roger de Backbite and Peter de Toadhole are intended to be quite real.
If webackbite our friends, we give them free permission to backbite us, or we know that they do it, which amounts to pretty much the same thing.
I know young men who are envious and backbite their friends; and young men who aspire to be somebody else; and young men who pose as infidels, and would rather be held up to execration in a paper than not to be mentioned at all.
Sir Benjamin Backbite remarked that though the gentleman was languid, the lady was shaken out of her habitual coldness.
Even as thou art scandalizing others, thine own nature is being abased, whilst those whom thou dost backbite remain the same.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backbite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: disparage; libel; malign; slander
