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Scurrilous critic
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backbiter
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel [syn: defamer , maligner , slanderer , vilifier , libeler , traducer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backbiter \Back"bit`er\, n. One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of sight and hearing of the second person.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Backbiter is a protopunk band from Los Angeles , California that has received national recognition. They played their first show October 23, 1991, at the Shamrock Bar in Hollywood , CA on a bill with Dicktit, the Jack Brewer Band and The Drills (whose organist, ...
Usage examples of backbiter.
Thervin Backbiter is King Rat, the leade the northwestern rival of the Kingdom of Cant.
There the Slanderers, Backbiters, and other envious cowards are tormented in a deep and dark dungeon.
The torments of the Third and Fourth Hells are also relatively light, and are designed for such sinners as bad bureaucrats, backbiters, forgers, coiners, misers, dishonest tradesmen, and blasphemers.
The good-natured convivialists differed from all other backbiters that I have ever met, in the same manner as the toads of Surinam differ from all other toads.
It says that those who turn themselves over to the devil to work his evil ways are “filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
And if one of the servants ever called down Engelard, thinking to curry favour with Rhisiart, hed soon get told that the alltuds an honest man and a good worker, worth ten of the likes of his backbiters.
And then the smaller lice: the backbiters, the haters, the Guild of Peepers, the moralists, the patriots.