Category:Backbite

Back"bite`, v. i. Etym: [2nd back, n., + bite]

Defn: To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

Back"bite`, v. i.

Defn: To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Backbite - In Psalms 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Proverbs 25:23, secret tale bearing or slandering; in Romans 1:30 and 2 Corinthians 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.