backbiting English

Meaning backbiting meaning

What does backbiting mean?

backbiting noun

— the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge

backbiting adjective

— Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

Synonyms backbiting synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as backbiting?

backbiting English » English

slander

scandal

calumny

gossip

slandering

tale-bearing

aspersion

words of sowing defamation

talebearing

slanderous

scandalous

scandalmongering

malignant gossip

malicious gossip

libel

ill-speaking

defamation

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