Thesaurus: backbite

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1. v. i. To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
2. v. i. To censure or revile the absent.
3. v. say mean things
4. To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser. To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.
5. To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly orspitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (oneabsent). Spenser.