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)

• 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
• 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
• 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.