OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 25655

backbite

Meanings (ES + gloss)
calumniar
To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
Gumshoe: You're not gonna get me to backbite a woman with a whip. No way.
They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.