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Definition of Backbitten
1. backbite [v] - See also: backbite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbitten
Literary usage of Backbitten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1886)
"She is я "social success, without money to hack it up, backbitten by inhuman
women, loyally admired by men ; the contrasts of her life are ..."
2. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... the shield and support of the slandered and down-trodden duenna- kind, abhorred
of apothecaries,1 backbitten by squires, and tricked by pages ! ..."
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