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词汇 backbite
释义 backbite
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈbæk.baɪt/ us /ˈbæk.baɪt/
to say unpleasant and unkind things about someone who is not there: 背后诽谤,背后中伤,背后说坏话
I'm not short-tempered, but I do get annoyed if friends backbite me.我并不是爱发脾气,可要是有朋友在背后说我坏话,我也是会生气的。
He has been often blamed for this and people backbit him more than ever after his death.
Our enemies love to revile and backbite us.
The public seem surprised that members of such an apparently genteel profession as classical music should stoop so low as to backbite.
If we all pull together, then we can be a successful force in world rugby again. If we bicker and backbite, then we will divide even further, and fall.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
cutthroat
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
mordant
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian

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Remarks & remarking
Disapproving & criticizing

Examples of backbite


backbite
Let us now stop backbiting and recriminating, and co-operate and get on with it.
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Apparently there has been a certain amount of backbiting somewhere, but 1 am sure he will never accuse me of that.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We need a proper debate—not one that is petty and backbiting about who is or is not running the railways—that will bring about the improvements that we need.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The active end can backbite the chain, forming a macrocycle.
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Wikipedia

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