Crossword-Solution: BACKBITER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backbiter | n. | One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BACKBITER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Scurrilous critic | 1 answer |
| one who speaks disdainfully or spitefully about another person, often without the other person knowing | 1 answer |
| slanderer | 5 answers |
| Scandalmonger | 38 answers |
| disputant | 46 answers |
| Antagonist | 56 answers |
| Adver-sary | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BACKBITER (5)
She founded a hospice--the Marie Thérèse Infirmary--visited the poor, succoured the sick, superintended crêches, gave alms and prayed; at the same time she was harsh towards her husband, her relatives, her friends, and her servants, and was sour-tempered, stern, prudish, and a backbiter.
Again, how he was no backbiter, nor easily frightened, nor suspicious, and in his language free from all affectation and curiosity: and how easily he would content himself with few things, as lodging, bedding, clothing, and ordinary nourishment, and attendance.
Nothing more injures the man who would rise beyond the fame of the salons than to be considered backbiter and gossip; "yet it is always useful," thought Randal Leslie, "to know the foibles, the small social and private springs, by which the great are moved.
Nothing more injures the man who would rise beyond the fame of the salons than to be considered backbiter and gossip; “yet it is always useful,” thought Randal Leslie, “to know the foibles, the small social and private springs, by which the great are moved.
Thus he wrote _The Braggart_, _The Irresolute_, _The Ungrateful_, _The Backbiter_, _The Spendthrift_, etc.
Quotes with BACKBITER (1)
If becoming "religious" has made you more judgmental, rude, harsh, a backbiter, you need to check if you are worshiping God or your ego.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).