Definition of "back-biting" [back-biting]

• Present participle of back-bite. (verb)

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• "Goldman staff, just like their peers at lesser firms, live in a back-biting world of ambitious bankers who would elbow their best friends in the face to get the corner office."
• "Any serious study into the Edwardian era will unearth a stunning array of double-dealing, back-biting, secret treaties, war-mongering, and imperialistic dreams between European, American, and Asian nations, which resulted in tension so thick, you could cut with it a rattling saber."
• "But this silly back-biting wouldn't be that troubling on its own."