backbiting
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Noun
Malicious talk about someone who is not present,
/ˈbakˌbītiNG/,
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Malicious talk about someone who is not present,
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Malicious talk about someone who is not present
Web Definitions:
- 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.
- 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
- slandering an absent party
- Speaking maliciously or slanderously about a person who is absent.