backbite vs mimic

backbite

verb
  • To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone. 

  • To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks. 

  • To speak badly of an absent individual. 

noun
  • One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter. 

mimic

verb
  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

adj
  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

  • Mock, pretended. 

noun
  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

  • A mime. 

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