Backbiting

Meaning

Noun

●

The

of

a person without that person's knowledge.

Adj

●

Slanderous or

, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

Verb

●

present participle

and

of backbite

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Origin

backbiting

English

bacbiting

Middle English (1100-1500)

backbite

Middle English (1100-1500)

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