backbiting

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge. countable,uncountable
    — […]ending his epistle by saying, "that his uncle having doubtless lent his ear to some old woman's tales and backbiting, he did not choose to place his property in the hands of a spendthrift,[…]
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of backbite form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
    — Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.

词形变化

backbitings plural more backbiting comparative most backbiting superlative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bakbitynge, bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to backbite + -ing.
词源 2
From Middle English bakbytynge, equivalent to backbite + -ing.
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