Usually means: Speaking negatively about someone absent.
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▸ adverb:  In a backbiting manner.

Similar:
bitingly, snidely, spitefully, backhandedly, scathingly, bitterly, sneeringly, cattily, snipingly, snarkishly, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, commendation

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Similar:
bitingly, snidely, spitefully, backhandedly, scathingly, bitterly, sneeringly, cattily, snipingly, snarkishly, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, commendation



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