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backbite 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. say mean things
  2. Backbiting or tale-bearing is to slander someone in their absence -- to bite them behind their back. Originally, backbiting referred to an unsporting attack from the rear in the blood sport of bearbaiting.
  3. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter; To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone; To attack from behind or when out of earshot; To speak badly of an absent individual
  4. (backbiting) The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge; A person who slanders or speaks badly of a person without that person's knowledge
  5. (Backbiting) slandering an absent party
  6. Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting. For your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by servants and children.
  7. In Psa 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Pro 25:23, secret tale bearing or slandering; in Rom 1:30 and Co2 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.
  8. speak (spitefully/badly of), slander (in absence of), libel, defame, disparage, denigrate, slur, spiteful talk
  9. to speak slanderously or spitefully about a person (Ps. 15:3; Rom. 1:30). Backbiting involves an element of deceit and cowardice. It should be avoided by Christians.