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Backbiter

noun
1.
One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.  Synonyms: defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier.






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"Backbiter" Quotes from Famous Books



... that in a voice inarticulate with rage, with a stammering tongue, and eyes that flashed living fire, he exclaimed, "Rascally clown, boorish, insolent, and ignorant, ill-spoken, foul-mouthed, impudent backbiter and slanderer! Hast thou dared to utter such words in my presence and in that of these illustrious ladies? Hast thou dared to harbour such gross and shameless thoughts in thy muddled imagination? Begone from my presence, thou born monster, storehouse of lies, hoard of untruths, garner of knaveries, ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra



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