How to pronounce “backbite”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
• (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
• To speak badly of an absent individual.
• [Noun]
• One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

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