0 to say unpleasant and unkind things about someone who is not there:
I'm not short-tempered, but I do get annoyed if friends backbite me.
He has been often blamed for this and people backbit him more than ever after his death.
The public seem surprised that members of such an apparently genteel profession as classical music should stoop so low as to backbite.
If we all pull together, then we can be a successful force in world rugby again. If we bicker and backbite, then we will divide even further, and fall.
Let us now stop backbiting and recriminating, and co-operate and get on with it.
Apparently there has been a certain amount of backbiting somewhere, but 1 am sure he will never accuse me of that.
We need a proper debate—not one that is petty and backbiting about who is or is not running the railways—that will bring about the improvements that we need.
The active end can backbite the chain, forming a macrocycle.
