backbiting

Significado (Inglês)

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

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Conceitos

maledicência

bisbilhotice

calúnia

difamação

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

laster

achterklap

maldicenza

transfert intramoléculaire

médisance

calumnia

eerroof

clabauderie

mormorazione

sussurrio

malignita

maledictio

detractio

maledicentia

maledicencia

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: bakbitynge

Herdado de inglês médio: bakbytynge

In summary

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