(n.) One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
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.
Biter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.
(n.) One who cheats; a sharper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the mark-recapture and blood meal data indicated behavioral heterogeneity between buffalo and human biters, restriction endonuclease fragment length polymorphism analysis revealed no differences in repeat sequence profiles.
(2) He notes an improvement of the situation with a significant decrease in the rate of positivity among the biter animals.
(3) The contact of A. minimus with man was much higher outdoors than indoors, and studies showed the species to be an early biter, especially in the dry season, thus increasing the chance of man-vector contact.
(4) No heterogeneity was found between indoor and outdoor biters of An.
(5) For @BeppeBergonzi, tweeting in English, “The ‘Biter’ team won”.
(6) Jimmy Kimmel reveals the heartlessness of healthcare in America | Arwa Mahdawi Read more Despite the majority leader’s confidence, Thursday’s vote is expected to be a nail-biter.
(7) On subsequent pairing, the major biters of each pair (neck + body bites) were predicted by their higher concentrations of the 5-HT precursor tryptophan but not by 5-HT turnover.
(8) It is a case of the biter bit as the banks that whipped up the speculative frenzy a year or two ago are themselves being targeted by speculators as they try to raise capital in an environment of asset-price deflation.
(9) Indiana, utilizing David West as something of a secret weapon , managed to claw back into the game, which morphed from a laugher to a nail-biter, a see-saw affair as both teams traded runs.
(10) You can call me “big-mouth”, “biter”, “diver”.
(11) It would be interesting to explore the rich variety of pathology produced in us by moray eels, lionfish, sea urchins, jellyfish, sting rays, fire ants, kissing bugs, flies, lice, mosquitoes, ticks, mites, fleas, puss caterpillars, centipedes, snakes, dogs and cats, camels, and myriad other creatures including homo sapiens (not a trivial biter)--but for this grand rounds, the topic will simply be spiders (Part 1), bees and vespid (Part 2).
(12) Suárez's notoriety has caught the attention of former world heavyweight boxing champion, and confirmed biter, Mike Tyson.
(13) Detailed analysis of 772 bite reports was made to determine the characteristics of biters and their victims.
(14) There were more nail-biters in the 90s: Andy Cole v Ludo Miklosko in 1995, Andy Cole's redemption at Middlesbrough in 1996 and Andy Cole's cute lob against Tottenham to secure the first part of United's treble in 1999.
(15) He suggests the continuation of the efforts undertaken to control biter animals and eventually the extension of the campaign to the regional level.
(16) Greece were supposed to be the tournament's specialists when it comes to set pieces, but the biter got bit – Ki Sung-yong floating a free-kick into the penalty area, the ball getting flicked on and Lee arriving at the far post to side-foot in the classic set-piece goal.
(17) This game has 1-0 nail-biter written all over it, but given how wacky this World Series has been , maybe the absolute last thing we should expect is the first thing we expect.
(18) trapidoi is primarily an early biter at dusk, with the first peak at 20.00-21.00 hours and the second at 03.00-04.00 hours; and that Lu.
(19) Read more Biter or not, Hiddink agrees his striker has anger management issues.
(20) Earlier this week the NT News reported that Tollner called Joshua Higgins a “pillow biter” and “shirt lifter” in a row over a draft speech that was shown to cabinet.