Crossword clues for backbiter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backbiter \Back"bit`er\, n. One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
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.
WordNet
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, Jeff Muendel, later joined Backbiter for a few years and one album). Singer/guitarist Jonathan Hall had been playing in Texorcist (the Los Angeles band with Linda "Texacala" Jones, formerly of Tex and the Horseheads, not the Texas band of the same name) and the Angry Samoans with and bassist Heath Seifert. They jammed with drummer Bob Lee (one of the Devo Bob drummers) and the power trio came together, playing local clubs such as the notable post-punk hangout, Raji's.
The band released their first CD, Get Together in 1994. A second effort in 2001, a split-CD with Swedish band Elope on Man's Ruin Records (MR-2015) featured Muendel on Hammond B3 organ. Hall doesn’t sing about warlocks and unicorns, nor does the group sludge it up in an overtly Black Sabbath fashion, but the association with Man’s Ruin has associated them with the Stoner rock movement. That release is arguably their heaviest.
The band released a third album in 2006, once again as power trio sans the organ. The band continues to play live shows throughout California. They received LA Weeklys Heavy Metal Band of the Year award, which was presented to them by musician Ronnie James Dio.
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.