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Definition of Backbiting
1. n. Secret slander; detraction.
Definition of Backbiting
1. Noun. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge. ¹
2. Adjective. A person who slanders or speaks badly of a person without that person's knowledge. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of backbite) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backbiting
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbiting
Literary usage of Backbiting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian's Manual of Faith and Devotion: Containing Dialogues and by John Henry Hobart (1850)
"When you hear any one backbiting, spreading false reports of his neighbour, or
using his tongue ill any other way. O Lord as the tongue is full of deadly ..."
2. The Banquet of Dun Na N-Gedh and The Battle of Magh Rath: An Ancient by John O'Donovan, Ireland) Trinity College (Dublin, Library (1842)
"... defiance from the battlements of his tongue, and to threaten with the scourges
of his words. And the tricky, evil-teaching, cursed, morose, backbiting ..."
3. A Gift for Muslim Women = by Muḥammad ʻĀshiq Ilāhī (2001)
"What kind of Talk is backbiting? The scholars hold that referring to the sin of
someone, picking faults in his or her dress, to revile someone's lineage, ..."
4. Religious Allegories: Being a Series of Emblematic Engravings, with Written by William Holmes, John Warner Barber (1848)
"SLANDER AND backbiting. Mark ! where the good man unsuspecting treads, No evil
meditates, nor evil dreads; The base assassins from their covert start, ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1869)
"Lxii. occurs a remarkable and characteristic passage on slander or backbiting,— "
Alas ! how greatly have backbiting dogs increased in number, ..."
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