Backbiting vs Slender - What's the difference?
backbiting | slender |
The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
* 1303 , Robert Manning of Brune, Handlyng synne
* 1862 , Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
Slandering or speaking badly of a person without that person's knowledge.
* 1580 , Thomas Tusser, A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie
* 1873 , Rhoda Broughton, Nancy
Thin; slim.
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, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.
As adjectives the difference between backbiting and slender
is that backbiting is slandering or speaking badly of a person without that person's knowledge while slender is thin; slim.As a noun backbiting
is the action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.As a verb backbiting
is .backbiting
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to .Noun
(en noun)- No custummable bakbytyng God....
- Not given to backbiting .
Etymology 2
From backbite.Adjective
(en adjective)- Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.
- Am I to have a backbiting wife?
Verb
(head)slender
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}