(v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
(v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.
Example Sentences:
(1) May told backbench MPs at a summer event that their choice was her or Corbyn as prime minister as she urged them to stop the “backbiting”.
(2) Not only would the party’s Stalinist-like discipline compare favourably with the chaos and backbiting that would infect the coalition government, but the Shinners would play it all to their advantage in other ways.” With senior Fianna Fáil personnel baulking at the prospect of a formal coalition government with Fine Gael and remaining on the opposition benches, it appears so far that they will not be gifting any “grand coalition wet dream” to Sinn Féin in the near future.
(3) The disarray and anonymous backbiting in the Liberal party is infuriating Abbott loyalists and some in the National party .
(4) Alastair Campbell, Blair's former communications director, put it: "You know with absolute certainty that today's broadly loyal minister is tomorrow's bitter and backbiting backbencher."
(5) Two sources close to the situation described an atmosphere of sniping and backbiting as Trump loyalists position themselves for key jobs,” the network reported.
(6) West paid tribute to his Watch the Throne partner Jay-Z, saying the older rapper had looked out for West and protected him in the backbiting culture of hip-hop.
(7) Especially intriguing is the behind-the-scenes backbiting and jockeying for position among Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers: Robert Shapiro (John Travolta), F Lee Bailey (Nathan Lane), Johnny Cochran (Courtney B Vance) and Alan Dershowitz (Evan Handler).
(8) Others said they were an inevitable product of the macho news culture in which he was immersed for almost 40 years - from the newsrooms of local papers to the deserts of his African adventures and the backbiting world of BBC internal politics.
(9) The Vatileaks scandals, which led to the jailing of the former pope's butler for passing stolen papers to Italian journalists, exposed a nest of backbiting and financial corruption.
(10) The haters and the backbiters have ready-made arguments they love to throw in your face.
(11) Amid the financial crisis swirling the chancelleries of Europe and the perennial backbiting about an uncompetitive economy suffering at the hands of cheaper labour in the east the economic premise for the EU is often lost: that over the past 25 years, the single market has made goods cheaper, labour cheaper, and trade more secure and more competitive.
(12) When it became apparent that Balls had no hope of winning a contest, mired as he was in the backbiting of the New Labour years, they wanted someone else to topple David Miliband.
(13) What selling needs is high visibility, unblinking belief and a capacity to persuade that starts with immediate colleagues – which is why the backbiting sets up such a damaging circle of negativity.
(14) The attorney general misled the cabinet – which, in any case, consisted of informal cups of coffee, rubber-stamping, and backbiting.
(15) They include surveillance reports, inter-agency information trading, disinformation and backbiting, as well as evidence of infiltration, theft and blackmail.
(16) Otherwise, John Ashdown,sends in the ECB job description , one of whose requirements isthe "implementation of a people agenda" - presumably a plan for how backbiting and gossip should work, an essential quality for running English cricket.
(17) Straight talk is a style of communication aimed at solving problems--without blaming, defending, bickering, or backbiting.
(18) Johnson's second term in city hall often resembles a sort of laissez-faire zoo, over-stocked with backbiters, cronies and cranks.
(19) In a profession that is often noted for its backbiting, Jack had an Olympian stature.
Bitch
Definition:
(n.) The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.
(n.) An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.
(2) In this study 470 bitches were inseminated; 405 with fresh semen into the cranial vagina and 65 with frozen semen transcervically into the uterus.
(3) Adverse effects on conception, pregnancy, or parturition were not observed in the treated bitches.
(4) With Jackie Collins announcing plans to self-publish a revised version of her novel The Bitch, even traditionally published authors are now dabbling in self-publishing, and the survey found this was to good effect: they earned 2.5 times more when self-publishing than did rejected authors or authors who went straight to self-publishing.
(5) Observations based on the case histories of 39 dogs and bitches (38 Dobermans and 1 Great Dane) diagnosed as "wobblers" are presented.
(6) Oestrogen and progesterone concentrations were within normal limits in both of these conditions where single samples were obtained, but the bitch with false pregnancy studied in detail showed a raised oestrogen level during metoestrus.
(7) Uterine endometrium was collected from cyclic and pregnant bitches on diestrus Days 3, 7, and 10 as determined by loss of cornification of vaginal epithelium, and from ovariectomized dogs after treatment with corn oil, estrogen, P4, or estrogen followed by 1 or 2 wk of P4.
(8) Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus canis were the most frequently isolated bacteria in specimens collected from the vagina (in the area of the urethral orifice) of 20 normal intact bitches and 20 spayed bitches.
(9) Another bitch had subclinical infection and delivered 3 CDV-infected pups.
(10) Chelsea were already down to 10 men, after the sending-off of Thibaut Courtois, Sky Sports released video footage of the moment Mourinho lost his temper with his medical staff which appears to show the Portuguese calling one or both of them “son of a bitch”.
(11) The court heard that MP responded to Nimmo's message of "Dumb blonde bitch" with the message "That's dumb Dr blonde bitch to you".
(12) As a rule the bitches were treated locally (deeply intravaginal), the choice of the drug depending on the results of bacteriological examination.
(13) Among bitches which were inseminated twice, non-pregnant bitches had significantly lower mean plasma progesterone concentrations at the second insemination than did pregnant bitches, and this indicates that the second insemination was performed too early.
(14) The conception rate and fecundity of 36 bitches artificially inseminated with frozen semen from various sources were investigated: 8 bitches were inseminated with semen frozen at the clinic, and 28 were inseminated with imported frozen semen.
(15) Where in July street vendors sold hats and T-shirts with slogans such as “Hillary for Prison” and “Life’s a bitch, don’t vote for one”, this week the merchandise says “Hard working town Cleveland”, “Land of champions”, “C*town don’t back down” and “I liked Cleveland before it was cool”.
(16) Affected bitches may be reluctant to breed naturally because of pain.
(17) Thirty-two static and dynamic histomorphometric determinants of tetracycline-labeled trabecular bone were determined for the L1 and L3 vertebrae of 5 intact and 6 oophorectomized Beagle bitches.
(18) Apparent ovulation was characterized by a decrease in number of follicles seen from 1 day to the next, but 1 or more follicles remained in at least 1 ovary of 7 of 10 bitches.
(19) Serum concentrations in Beagle bitches given mibolerone were found to be dependent on concentration in and type of formulation.
(20) The known reproductive history of the bitch included litters of 6, 5, 13, and 10 pups during 4 consecutive estrous cycles.