Usage examples for Backbiting:

• Where a bare order would breed resentment and backbiting an appeal, which is reinforced by a carefully nurtured universal labor sentiment, will eventually bring about common consent and a willing acquiescence in the policy supported by the majority. "A History of Trade Unionism in the United States" – Selig Perlman

• Is it possible, then, for backbiting to glide into religious communities? "Fraternal Charity" – Rev. Father Valuy