Definition of "backbites" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backbite. (verb)
• Plural form of backbite. (noun)

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• "Puh-leeze, Sam is the master of nasty backbites, what makes you think if he had someone on the line for 15 minutes he wouldn't use every bit of innuendo he could to make himslef look good."
• "The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him."
• "Cicero - The man who backbites an absent friend: A quote for Gordon & Peter Mandelson."