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Definition of Backbiters
1. backbiter [n] - See also: backbiter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbiters
Literary usage of Backbiters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"An advertisement and defence for Trueth against her backbiters, and specially
against the ... backbiters ..."
2. A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"backbiters. Turn a deaf ear to backbiters. A backbiter carries sunshine in his face,
... Ed. backbiters are commonly great cowards, and sneak when faced. ..."
3. Abaddon's Steam Engine, Calumny, Delineated: Being an Attempt to Stop Its by Lover of mercy rejoicing over judgement, Richard Ferguson (1817)
"... until these points are proved, we consequently set down religious backbiters
as liars, though they speak what they call nothing but the truth ; it being ..."
4. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1830)
"Of satirists and backbiters.—What effect they have had upon the author. —Stanzas
published by himself against himself. IT often makes me smile to think how ..."
5. A Gift for Muslim Women = by Muḥammad ʻĀshiq Ilāhī (2001)
"Leave the Assembly of backbiters One of my teachers was so particular about
avoiding backbiting that he did not allow anyone even to praise someone in his ..."
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