And spy not, neither backbite one another. Would any of you love to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would abhor that!
Source: tatoeba (2455160)
Backbite
Synonyms for "backbite" (68 found)
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Related words (34)
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2 entriesderived from
2 entriesmanner of
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7 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- أَبَرَ verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- اِغْتَابَ verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- pisləmək verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- yamanlamaq verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Bulgarian
1 entries- злосло́вя verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 戳脊梁 verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- 戳脊梁骨 verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- 誹謗 /诽谤 verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Cornish
1 entries- bacbîtya verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Czech
2 entries- pomlouvat verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- pomluvit verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
French
3 entries- calomnier verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- diffamer verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- salir verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
German
3 entries- afterreden verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- anschwärzen verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- verleumden verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Icelandic
3 entries- baknaga verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- rægja verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- rógbera verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Italian
4 entries- calunniare verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- denigrare verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- dire peste e corna verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- parlare alle spalle verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Japanese
1 entries- 後指を指す verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Māori
4 entries- kohimu verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- kōhimuhimu verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- kōhumuhumu verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- muhari verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Polish
2 entries- obgadywać verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- obmawiać verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Portuguese
1 entries- fazer a caveira verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Russian
4 entries- злосло́вить verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- поро́чить verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- ха́ять verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
- хули́ть verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Spanish
1 entries- calumniar verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Turkish
1 entries- iftira etmek verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Urdu
1 entries- غِیبَت کَرْنا verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- perangoolin verb (to make defamatory statements about another)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
She does nothing but backbite.
Source: tatoeba (12425947)
They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
Source: wiktionary
Gumshoe: You're not gonna get me to backbite a woman with a whip. No way.
Source: wiktionary
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