Crossword-Solution: BACKBITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backbite | v. i. | To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). |
| Backbite | v. i. | To censure or revile the absent. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “BACKBITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Attack surreptitiously | 1 answer |
| Slander someone in his absence | 1 answer |
| Speak ill of in absence | 1 answer |
| say mean things | 1 answer |
| talk spitefully about an absent person | 1 answer |
| give a bad name | 4 answers |
| ABSENTEE FROM SCHOOL | 10 answers |
| Accuse falsely | 13 answers |
| ABSENTEE ___ | 17 answers |
| Slander | 41 answers |
| Badmouth | 47 answers |
| asperse | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKBITE (5)
The practice of letters is miserably harassing to the mind; and after an hour or two’s work, all the more human portion of the author is extinct; he will bully, backbite, and speak daggers.
Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others.
Luke’s, and a third swearing strongly by the asylum at Hanwell; while each backed its case by circumstantial evidence of the same excellent nature as that brought to bear by Sir Benjamin Backbite on the pistol shot which struck against the little bronze bust of Shakespeare over the fireplace, grazed out of the window at a right angle, and wounded the postman, who was coming to the door with a double letter from Northamptonshire.
Sister of sad Ophelia, say, shall these Thy pearly teeth grow like piano keys Yellow and long; while thou, all skin and bone, Angles and morals, in a sky-blue veil, Shalt hosts of children to the sermon hale, Blare hymns, read chapters, backbite, and intone? GALLIA LADY, lady neat Of the roguish eye, Wherefore dost thou hie, Stealthy, down the street, On well-booted feet? From French novels I Gather that you fly, Guy or Jules to meet.
The pleasures of society, especially in the provinces, are to slander and backbite our neighbors.” “Monsieur Simon is jealous of your enthusiasm for the mysterious count,” said Ernestine.
Quotes with BACKBITE (1)
I believe that when a woman is given the chance to come to the defense of another woman, that is an opportunity that she should take in behalf of not only that woman; but in behalf of herself and all other women, everywhere. Men don't have low opinions of women because women are sluts and whores; but men have low opinions of women because they see how women compete with one another, pull one another down in order to rise above and backbite one another endlessly. There are men…
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).