Antonyms for backbiting


Grammar : Noun
Spell : bak-bahyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbækˌbaɪt


Definition of backbiting

Origin :
  • c.1200, bacbitunge, from back (adj. or n.) + biting. Related: back-bite (v.), early 14c.; back-biter (c.1200).
  • noun hateful talk
Example sentences :
  • The little settlement was a hot-bed of gossip, backbiting, and slander.
  • Extract from : « A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I » by Francis Parkman
  • Where does grudge-bearing, backbiting, or uncharitableness come in?
  • Extract from : « Standards of Life and Service » by T. H. Howard
  • Preciosa was upon trial for misdemeanor, and I for backbiting.
  • Extract from : « When Grandmamma Was New » by Marion Harland
  • Their life is one round of lying and gossiping, of scolding and backbiting.
  • Extract from : « Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays » by Various
  • Is it possible, then, for backbiting to glide into religious communities?
  • Extract from : « Fraternal Charity » by Rev. Father Valuy
  • It is a kind of moral sense, which recoils from detraction and backbiting.
  • Extract from : « A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females » by Harvey Newcomb
  • May we always know how to drive away a backbiting tongue with an angry countenance, as the north wind driveth away rain.
  • Extract from : « Notes on the Book of Leviticus » by C. H. Mackintosh
  • He hated any species of backbiting, and he had heard of Burleigh as an adept in the art, and a man to be feared.
  • Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King
  • This woman was a crackbrained devotee, who spent half her time in going to mass and the other half in backbiting her neighbors.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 » by Various
  • Poll-talk; backbiting: from the poll of the head: the idea being the same as in backbiting.
  • Extract from : « English As We Speak It in Ireland » by P. W. Joyce

Synonyms for backbiting

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