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Backbiter  n.  One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.





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... Cardinal, perceived that he was not ill-pleased at it; only the Friar himself was vexed, as may be easily imagined, and fell into such a passion that he could not forbear railing at the Fool, and calling him knave, slanderer, backbiter, and son of perdition, and then cited some dreadful threatenings out of the Scriptures against him. Now the Jester thought he was in his element, and laid about him freely. 'Good Friar,' said he, 'be not angry, for it is ...
— Utopia • Thomas More
 
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Words linked to "Backbiter" :   traducer, slanderer, maligner, detractor, libeler, depreciator, disparager, backbite, defamer, vilifier



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