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(v.i.) To censure or revile the absent.
(v.i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

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MLA	Webster's. "backbite" 27 May 2011. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/backbite/definitions/1977788>

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