backbiting

backbiting englanniksi

1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.

2. (RQ:Landon Duty)ending his epistle by saying, "that his uncle having doubtless lent his ear to some old woman's tales and backbiting, he did not choose to place his property in the hands of a spendthrift,(..)

3. (RQ:Trollope Orley Farm)

4. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

5. (quote-book)

6. (quote-journal)

7. (infl of)