How to Use backstabbing in a Sentence

backstabbing

noun

• She was hurt by her former friend's backstabbing.
• At least Tabitha and Moe are there to support Elodie in the very meta backstabbing.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• And, for better or for worse, there was no backstabbing among the bakers.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• Trump’s inner circle is like the Court of the Borgias, full of intrigue and backstabbing.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2017
• And after a decade of backstabbing, greed, and bloodshed, their lives — and pop culture — would never be the same.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Let’s hope that doesn’t mean the show will up its backstabbing quota next season; after all, that’s not what fans of The Bold Type are there for.
  — Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Her book is seamy, full of score-settling, gossip and backstabbing.
  — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• There’s no backstabbing between them; there’s a lot of honesty.
  — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2023
• But despite a plot full of backstabbing and infidelities, the movie is just that: a machine.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• There’s plenty of backstabbing, broken hearts and cat fights.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• That way, when the new regime comes in together at the same time, the Jaguars would have a better chance in 2022 at a drama-free and backstabbing-free environment.
  — Gene Frenette, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2022
• But what if the environment came with less backstabbing and more beer-drinking?
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 8 Jan. 2018
• There's a comedic element that keeps things fresh as the group works through fake friendships and literal backstabbing.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 19 July 2022
• If anything, the infighting among his staff and anonymous backstabbing in the press has only worsened as the stakes have risen higher.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 10 Feb. 2017
• Yes, there are insults aplenty, and the requisite amount of backstabbing.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• The game play and backstabbing feels more transparent this season than usual.
  — Joseph Longo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2021
• The front office was known for a culture of leaks and backstabbing, and McDaniels and Caserio believed that better offers would come their way.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• On the surface, it’s all backstabbing and table-flipping—a show filled with tiny dogs and massive diamonds.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Town & Country, 5 May 2021
• None of the ugliness of Worlds Apart or Kaoh Rong permeated the proceedings, even amongst all the lying and backstabbing.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 May 2020
• Hopefully, next week, the stakes will feel higher, and there will be some delicious backstabbing.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• There is just ambition, backstabbing and a mean streak of bullying.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
• The Romans passed down to us many treasures, from their games to distract the mob, to their ruthless backstabbing politics, architecture and the law.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• Groveland seems to be a city where backstabbing is an art form practiced by the very bored, but this reaches way beyond simple meddling.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 May 2017
• With a lot of intrigue and figurative backstabbing, the film can be seen as a sort of allegoric depiction of Julius Caesar's death.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 15 Mar. 2018
• The Trump White House itself has been riven by infighting and backstabbing, resulting in dozens of high-profile leaks and scathing news stories.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 6 Feb. 2017
• Mary Trump is the author of a tell-all book on the Trump family, portraying it as dysfunctional and plagued by a focus on backstabbing and money.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2021
• The amount of scheming, backstabbing, plotting, and gossiping that goes down on East 61st Street and 5th Avenue is plentiful, as are the characters.
  — Tanya Christian, Glamour, 24 Jan. 2022
• His downfall came amid a storm of corporate turnover and backstabbing, and Yetnikoff’s personal chaos.
  — Hillel Italie, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
• This could be as serious as a backstabbing betrayal from a friend or as simple as your child forgetting to take dinner out to thaw.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• There was plenty of incoherence, sure, a great number of poor decisions, and too much backstabbing.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024