backbiting

(Anglès)

Noun

The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.

Adj

Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

Verb

present participle and gerund of backbite

backbite

• Verb
• Noun

Llegeix-ne més

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: bakbitynge

Heretat de anglès mitjà: bakbytynge

In summary

From Middle English bakbitynge, bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to backbite + -ing.

Sinònims

slander

scandal

calumny

gossip

slandering

aspersion

tale-bearing

scandalous

defamation

backbite

slanderous

malicious gossip

talebearing

malignant gossip

scandalmongering

words of sowing defamation

ill-speaking

libel

Traduccions

maldicenza

achterklap

laster

transfert intramoléculaire

maledicência

eerroof

médisance

calumnia

mormorazione

sussurrio

malignita

maledictio

detractio

maledicentia

bisbilhotice