Definition of Backstabbing

1. Verb. (present participle of backstab) ¹

2. Adjective. One who backstabs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backstabbing

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backstabbing

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backsplash
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backspot flyingfish
backspun
backstab
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backstabber
backstabbers
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backstabbings
backstabby
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backstaffs
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backstair
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Literary usage of Backstabbing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plug Your Book: Online Book Marketing for Authors, Book Publicity Through by Steve Weber (2007)
"For good measure, she heaped on details of her sex life, recipes for reviving a romance, and snide remarks about her backstabbing coworkers. ..."

2. London Calling: How mobile technologies can transform a city by Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller (2003)
"There is evidence to suggest that people are not intrinsically alienated from politics as a whole, but from the adversarial backstabbing culture of ..."

3. Time and Fateby Lance Price by Lance Price (2005)
"But it was something more than Joanna's backstabbing that was troubling Helen this morning. For the first time since he'd got the job, and whether he could ..."

4. Exit by Mihai Nadin (2004)
"The intensity of hatred, infighting and backstabbing increases with the marginality and insecurity of a profession; hence, for rivalry, animus, ..."

5. Here Be Wisdom: 108 Aphorisms on the Mature Stage of Spiritual Life by Bhaktisiddhartha Dasanudas (2000)
"The competitiveness of the college social scene was child's play compared with the cutthroat, backstabbing battles in the halls of a major advertising firm. ..."

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