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Word Meanings - BACKBITER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

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  • BACKBITER
    One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
  • CYNICALNESS
    The quality of being cynical.
  • CYNIC; CYNICAL
    1. Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson. 2. Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic
  • CYNIC
    1. One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term
  • SLANDERER
    One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
  • CYNICISM
    The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opnions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.
  • CYNICALLY
    In a cynical manner.
  • DETRACTOR
    One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay. Syn. -- Slanderer; calumniator; defamer; vilifier.
  • DETRACTORY
    Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

 

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