Word Meanings - BACKBITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully ; to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BACKBITE)
- Asperse
- Slander
- calumniate
- bespatter
- befoul
- defy
- attack
- defame
- vilify
- traduce
- scandalize
- malign
- detract from
- blacken
- tarnish
- backbite
Related words: (words related to BACKBITE)
- MALIGNITY
1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature - MALIGNANT
Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of - TRADUCENT
Slanderous. Entick. - DEFAMER
One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator. - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - SLANDEROUS
1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n. - TRADUCEMENT
The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak. - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. - DETRACTIVENESS
The quality of being detractive. - DETRACTINGLY
In a detracting manner. - SCANDALIZE
1. To offend the feelings of the conscience of by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon. I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things. Hooker. the congregation looked - MALIGNANCE; MALIGNANCY
Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. 4. The state of being a malignant. Syn. -- Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; - VILIFY
1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and - MALIGNANTLY
In a malignant manner. - BACKBITER
One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor. - CALUMNIATE
To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. -- To asperse; slander; defame; vilify; - SLANDER
Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation. - TRADUCE
as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. Glanvill. 2. - ATTACK
1. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden. 2. To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism - ASPERSER
One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another. - ISLANDER
An inhabitant of an island.