backbiting
11backbiting — noun the backbiting between Democrats and Republicans has become tiresome Syn: malicious talk, spiteful talk, slander, libel, defamation, abuse, character assassination, disparagement, denigration, vilification, vituperation, calumny; slurs,… …
12backbiting — Synonyms and related words: abuse, animadversion, backstabbing, belittlement, calumnious, calumny, defamation, defamatory, depreciation, detracting, disparagement, invective, maligning, obloquy, reflection, scandal, scandalous, slander,… …
13backbiting — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. slander, calumny, detraction; see lie 1 …
14backbiting — back|bit|ing [ bæk,baıtıŋ ] noun uncount unpleasant comments and criticisms made about someone who is not there …
15backbiting — n. act of slandering someone who is not present, act of gossiping, disparagement back·bite || bækbaɪt v. slander one who is not present, gossip, disparage, libel …
16backbiting — noun malicious talk about an absent person. Derivatives backbiter noun …
17backbiting — n. Detraction, defamation, aspersion, slander, calumny, contumely, abuse, obloquy …
18backbiting — n 1. defamation, denigration, vilification, vilipending, vituperation; yellow journalism, mud slinging, muck raking; slur, defilement, blot, blot on the escutcheon, smear, smirch, stain, taint, attaint, tarnish, spot, blackening, black spot or… …
19backbiting — UK [ˈbækˌbaɪtɪŋ] / US noun [uncountable] unpleasant comments and criticisms made about someone who is not there …
20backbiting — ♦ n criticism, slander, libel, defamation, abuse, insults, slurs, gossip, malice, scandalmongering, spite, spitefulness FORMAL aspersion, calumny, disparagement, denigration, revilement, detraction, vilification, vituperation COLLOQ. bitchiness,… …
