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- verb Present participle of
back-bite .
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Examples
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It has deteriorated into back-biting, name-calling, you-too partisanship, and worse.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010
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It has deteriorated into back-biting, name-calling, you-too partisanship, and worse.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010
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And do not demean your own leaders -- stop the back-biting and competition that so often drives the most creative thinkers and activists out of the movement!
Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010
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It has deteriorated into back-biting, name-calling, you-too partisanship, and worse.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010
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And do not demean your own leaders -- stop the back-biting and competition that so often drives the most creative thinkers and activists out of the movement!
Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010
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But this silly back-biting wouldn't be that troubling on its own.
Are Treasury's Knives Coming Out Against Elizabeth Warren? Zach Carter 2010
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Any serious study into the Edwardian era will unearth a stunning array of double-dealing, back-biting, secret treaties, war-mongering, and imperialistic dreams between European, American, and Asian nations, which resulted in tension so thick, you could cut with it a rattling saber.
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Goldman staff, just like their peers at lesser firms, live in a back-biting world of ambitious bankers who would elbow their best friends in the face to get the corner office.
Myth-breaker charts the tarnishing of the Goldman image 2011
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Any serious study into the Edwardian era will unearth a stunning array of double-dealing, back-biting, secret treaties, war-mongering, and imperialistic dreams between European, American, and Asian nations, which resulted in tension so thick, you could cut with it a rattling saber.
Serio-Comic Maps of International Tensions | Edwardian Promenade 2010
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And do not demean your own leaders -- stop the back-biting and competition that so often drives the most creative thinkers and activists out of the movement!
Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010
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