See backbite on Wiktionary
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"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "戳脊梁骨"
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"word": "backbiter"
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"word": "backbiting"
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"ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:",
"text": "They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.",
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"To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone."
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"slanderous",
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[
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"To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks."
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"(informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks."
],
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},
{
"glosses": [
"To speak badly of an absent individual."
],
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"word": "back-bite"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "iḡtāba",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "اِغْتَابَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔabara",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "أَبَرَ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "pisləmək"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "yamanlamaq"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zloslóvja",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "злосло́вя"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chuō jǐlianggǔ",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "戳脊梁骨"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chuō jǐliang",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "戳脊梁"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "誹謗"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fěibàng",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "诽谤"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "bacbîtya"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pomlouvat"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "pomluvit"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "calomnier"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "salir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "diffamer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "verleumden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "afterreden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "anschwärzen"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "baknaga"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "rægja"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "rógbera"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "dire peste e corna"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "parlare male"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "denigrare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "sparlare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "calunniare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "parlare alle spalle"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ushiroyubi wo sasu",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "後指を指す"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "muhari"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "kohimu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "kōhimuhimu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "ngautuarā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "kōhumuhumu"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "obmawiać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "obgadywać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "fazer a caveira"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zloslóvitʹ",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "злосло́вить"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xájatʹ",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ха́ять"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xulítʹ",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "хули́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poróčitʹ",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "поро́чить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "полива́ть гря́зью impf (polivátʹ grjázʹju, literally “pour dirt on”)",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make defamatory statements about another",
"word": "calumniar"
}
],
"word": "backbite"
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"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
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"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
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"form": "backbites",
"tags": [
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"args": {},
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"glosses": [
"One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter."
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"backbiter",
"backbiter"
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{
"word": "back-bite"
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],
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}
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