Now backbiting is often profitable to those who are backbitten: for. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
No worse than they are backbitten, sir; for they have marvellous foul linen. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Part of King Henry IV] Reference
I won't, suffer his honor to be backbitten before his own face -- for it's next to that. From Wordnik.com. [Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
General Ople was the hero to champion a lady whose airs of haughtiness caused her to be somewhat backbitten. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
I overheard the aide-de-camp say; "he is a backbiting sneak, and I tell you again he's backbitten nobody more than he has you!". From Wordnik.com. [The Cavalier] Reference
"I," exclaimed Alley, "am not to be insulted and calumnied, ay, an 'backbitten before my own face, Misther Doran, and take my word you'll hear of this to your cost -- I've a faction.". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
"We have been backbitten and double crossed by Councillor Kenny. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"It begins to look to me," said he, "as if this young fellow had been most damnably backbitten. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire] Reference
For that she’s piteously ragged on, sniped at, and backbitten, by every media chasing hound, and a handful of sanctimonious orphan relief groups. From Wordnik.com. [Madonna Deserves Cheers Not Jeers for Casting Light on Africa's Orphan Misery] Reference
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