Sentences with backbiting
back·bite
B b - Corporate backbiting is nothing new.
- The speech came at the end of a week of backbiting in the television industry.
- At this some male chauvinist of the village started feeling worried about her knowledge and activities and started backbiting and accusing her of being a member of a banned outfit.
- With little to occupy their inner lives, they settle on sophomoric backbiting and relentless self-aggrandisement as the closest achievable thing to an actually mature expression of emotion or contact between two human beings.
- But their friendship did not last long as both were backbiting each other on numerous issues.
- In the absence of coherent arguments, the discussion quickly descended into backbiting and spats.
- In recent years, both councils have descended into counterproductive bickering and backbiting far too often.
- They never use profane language, bear false witness, engage in slander, gossip or backbiting, or even listen to such debasing talk.
- Instead of continued squabbling and backbiting, all parties concerned should now concentrate their efforts on what lies ahead and not make the entire public health profession continue to suffer.
- Many of them have bad or at least petty motives - backbiting, the desire to gossip or trade in information for advantage, revenge.
- Today, however, it looks more like public politics has entirely sunk to the level of petty personal backbiting, where government ministers can be judged on gossip rather than policy.
- Everyone seems to be plotting and backbiting against everyone else in the local Labour party, which makes identifying the source of the whispering campaign extremely difficult.
- It's that world of intrigue, of plotting, spin and backbiting that he will be bringing to life in his new weekly column for the Evening Press that begins tomorrow.
- But backbiting by the Opposition leader did not sway the organisers.
- The girls changed agents, changed publishers, and were, as you might expect, subject to a certain amount of backbiting and jealousy among the writing community.
- But people don't know the background of arguments and backbiting that has been going on over the state of the equipment and their refusal to give us concession prices.
- As a result, backbiting and betrayal was kept to a minimum.
- ‘I have never liked unfairness and backbiting,’ adds Fiennes.
- Each one knows what the other one thinks, and each one knows who is backbiting about whom, but an unknown thread still ties this group together.
- It seems that girls are engaging in more backbiting, gossip and trying to control other girls' behavior; often it becomes violent.
- He professes not to harbour vengeful thoughts and to be able to brush off the backbiting and naysaying from colleagues.