The rest of us moved to a downstairs sitting room, there to backbite and discuss events.

Those in positions of power simply cannot afford to prevaricate, backbite and bluster any longer.

Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves and will backbite.

If we bicker and backbite, then we will divide even further, fall and fall, it's a very simple equation'.

Miss Atkin continued to backbite.

Avoid most suspicions, verily some suspicion is a sin and do not look out for faults and do not backbite one another.

For one, he's a stickler for the type of player who won't backbite or point fingers, fitting into that family atmosphere that Torborg preaches about.

Wendler and Hana Nitsche began to backbite - Fiona Erdmann being the victim.

Caustic and self-centered and known to backbite against management, players, and particularly, fellow coaches, Brown was (and is) a superb teacher and tactician, as a coach or CBS broadcaster.

After the despair of the great Copenhagen cop-out, here's a bit of good news: while the politicians bicker and backbite, thousands of people, organisations and companies have been quietly taking the battle against climate change into their own hands.

I will not say here how I will vote, partly because it's against my newspaper's rules, but mainly because millions of undecideds would follow like lemmings and make me responsible for the result and unable to creatively backbite or pettily bicker.