backbiting vs cattish

backbiting

adj
  • Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge. 

noun
  • The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge. 

cattish

adj
  • sly and spiteful; marked by malice 

  • catlike; in the manner of a cat 

  • stealthy 

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