Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Backbiting

Backbiting ({not transcribed}) , noun

Secret slander; detraction.

Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. — Piers Plowman

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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