backbitings

I stand therefore in high favor with both parties, and have to hear all their cabinet councils and mutual backbitings.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

He never had been; a spaceman was necessarily a gentle, introverted sort, unable to cope with the backbitings and intrigues of office politics.

The Long Way Home Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1955

When he comes, he arouses suspicions, he stirs up strife, he quenches the spirit of intercessory prayer, he engenders backbitings, and causes separations.

When the Holy Ghost is Come Col. S. L. Brengle

God for their salvation, he thus continued: "I hear that there are quarrels and backbitings among you, and that some even seek the lives of others; all this proceeds from your not knowing the Saviour."

The Moravians in Labrador Anonymous

Sultan Salàh has had twelve wives in his day, and he assured us that their dissensions and backbitings had made him grow old before his time; his looking so old must be put down to the cares of polygamy.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

The trials and tribulations of the literary life, its feuds and its backbitings are a common topic of conversation.

Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914

I have always been opposed to journalistic backbitings.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Somehow the sudden lapses of respected people, odd indecorums, backbitings, bigamies, embezzlements, and attempted chastities -- the surprising leaps they make now and then out of propriety into the police-courts -- somehow news-items of this kind do not altogether -- how shall I put it?

More Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907

There were numerous little carpings, backbitings, and hypocrisies during the evening, and they reached a climax when Betty said, "Lord Bobbie is coming to-night, my dear."

The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892

All I fear is, that these continued backbitings, if listened to by her, will, by and by, produce a feeling of distrust or regret, which will lead to unpleasant results.

Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum 1891