to backstab

Examples

• All

• They backstab each other right out of a job, and that's because the only thing they have is their career.

  Ring the Bell (2013)

• "I never thought that my own partner would backstab me this way.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Next one is most likely to backstab their friend.

• Does that break your heart a little bit that people backstab each other like this?

• Anyone on that list may tell the person you backstab.

  Blog text (4)

• I don't trust women because I learned early on that those you think you can trust most sometimes backstab you and use your words against you.

  Blog text (5)

• He backstabs everybody who deals with him.

  Blog text (13)

• Don't you backstab me!

  Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)

• Both characters' vanity and desire to be the star of the show lead them to connive and backstab, which usually winds up making them the butt of the joke.

  Blog text (28)

• "I never thought that my own partner would backstab me this way."

Synonyms

B

to betray

vsto backstab

111 4.1

Give people or information to an enemy

is secret disloyalty done while pretending personal friendship

S

to snitch

vsto backstab

• Slang

36 7.9

To secretly tell the police or a person in charge about someone's bad actions

is secret harm while posing as a friend, not mainly about informing others

D

to double-cross

vsto backstab

32 6.5

Betray someone who trusts you after pretending to help them

is secret harm while pretending a close personal friendship

S

to sell down the river

vsto backstab

• Informal

12 8.8

To betray someone to get something for yourself

is secret harm while pretending friendship rather than exposing someone to others

P

to play false

vsto backstab

1 8.1

To trick someone who trusts you by hiding your real plans to get something for yourself

is secret personal harm done while pretending to be a friend or ally

C

to cut someone's throat

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• Offensive

8.4

To betray or hurt someone to get an advantage

is secret harm done while pretending friendship rather than open attack

Antonyms

S

to support

∞ 1.0

Give help to a person or idea

How Treacherous

to backstab

• Informal

5 6.6

to double-cross

32 6.5

to betray

143 4.6

to let down

210 2.9

Surface Forms

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Etymology