The Ten squabble and backbite worse than spoiled children. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Company]
(49: 11-12) "Do not backbite or speak ill of one another.". From Wordnik.com. [Can a good Muslim be a good American?] Reference
This is an administration that doesn't leak, that doesn't backbite, for the most part. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2002] Reference
The rest of us moved to a downstairs sitting room, there to backbite and discuss events. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Oberon]
It didn't seem to hurt to backbite as much as you could, as long as you got away with it. From Wordnik.com. [Living the 7 Habits] Reference
"Neither backbite one another." (surah al hujaraat: 12). From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
If you don't want her to pity or backbite, let her laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
Besides, the way people gossip and backbite is the very devil!. From Wordnik.com. [Three Comedies] Reference
The fourth, that we may stop the mouths of such as would backbite. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Part of King Henry IV] Reference
Use his men well, Davy, for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite. From Wordnik.com. [Act V. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
Ah! my brother, hast thou never seen a virtue backbite and stab itself?. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
A parcel of old women who delight in having some one to run down and backbite. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
And when they lack confidence in those in charge, they despair and grumble and backbite. From Wordnik.com. [Cobb] Reference
They who were most benefited are often the first to most loudly complain and to backbite. From Wordnik.com. [The Toilers of the Field] Reference
I too am a perpetual victim of gossiping Arab ladies who backbite as if life relies on it. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
He could not backbite, nor envy, nor prevaricate, nor jump at mean motives for generous acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens] Reference
"It is not well for one servant to backbite another. From Wordnik.com. [Ramona] Reference
"But not to quarrel; not to haggle, and backbite and scold!. From Wordnik.com. [Rimrock Jones] Reference
Does backbite mean to eat when you are supposed to be fasting?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
15. bite -- backbite the character. devour -- the substance by injuring, extortion, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Good Friday) went home; and our Somerset friends only stayed for two days more to backbite them. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
Do not tell lies nor backbite. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829] Reference
Though still we can grin and backbite!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Though still we can grin and backbite. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference
And spy not, neither backbite one another. From Wordnik.com. [Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side] Reference
Doth loath such base condition, to backbite. From Wordnik.com. [Prosopopoia: Or Mother Hubberds Tale] Reference
Bigio, continued to calumniate and backbite. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
"Then don't condescend to backbite him, dear.". From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
I cannot plot and backbite because it's not me. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
To backbite, to fpeakiU of. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
= murmurar = to murmur, backbite. From Wordnik.com. [Novelas Cortas] Reference
(Ibid., s.v. "backbite."). From Wordnik.com. [Mormon Stories Podcast Archive] Reference
Deprave, l. 157, backbite, run down. From Wordnik.com. [Caxton's Book of Curtesye] Reference
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