Word Meanings - BACKBITING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BACKBITING)

• Calumny
• Slander
• defamation
• detraction
• libel
• traducement
• backbiting
• opprobrium
• aspersion
• Detraction
• Diminution
• deterioration
• depreciation
• slander
• derogation

Related words: (words related to BACKBITING)

• OPPROBRIUM
  Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
• 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.
• 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.
• LIBELLEE
  The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.
• LIBELANT
  One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. Cranch.
• DEROGATION
  An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks. (more info) 1. The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it
• BACKBITER
  One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
• BACKBITING
  Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.
• LIBELLULID
  A dragon fly.
• SLANDERER
  One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
• LIBEL
  A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law. Note: The term, in a more
• DEPRECIATION
  1. The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation. 2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke. 3. the state of being depreciated.
• LIBELIST
  A libeler.
• DEFAMATION
  Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion. Note: In modern usage, written defamation bears the title
• DIMINUTION
  Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record. (more info) 1. The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase. 2. The act of lessening
• BACKBITE
  To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully ; to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.
• DETERIORATION
  The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
• LIBELER
  One who libels. " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.
• LIBELLULOID
  Like or pertaining to the dragon fi
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• BELIBEL
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.
• DISSLANDER
  To slander. Legend of Dido.
• INTERLIBEL
  To libel mutually.