verb (used with object)
1.
to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
verb (used without object)
2.
to speak unfavorably or slanderously of a person who is not present.
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| —vb , -bites, -biting, -bit, -bitten, -bit | |
| to talk spitefully about (an absent person) | |
| 'backbiter | |
| —n | |
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Backbite
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is absquatulate. Does it mean:
| to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle. |
| to flee; abscond: |
Easton
Bible Dictionary
Backbite definition
In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.
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