Backbiting

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  • n. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
  • adj. A person who slanders or speaks badly of a person without that person's knowledge.
  • v. Present participle of backbite.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Secret slander; detraction.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of slandering the absent; secret calumny.
    • Word Usage
    "He offered friendship to many people and never engaged in backbiting and exclusionary activities so typical of academia."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    detraction   
    Verb Stem
    backbite   
    Same Context
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