as in to betray
to be unfaithful or disloyal to
knew what it felt like to be backstabbed by a so-called friend
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Recent Examples of backstab
Friends can lie, colleagues can backstab, anyone can die in any number of brutal ways.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Many of the women are status-obsessed and needy, quick to backstab other women to reach the top.
—Literary Hub
june 21, Literary Hub, 21 June 2023
Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Many of the women are status-obsessed and needy, quick to backstab other women to reach the top.
—Literary Hub
june 21, Literary Hub, 21 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for backstab
betray
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His body had betrayed him again.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Trump has fanned the flames of inflation and passed out tax breaks to billionaires, betraying his promises to lower costs yet again.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Backstab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backstab. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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