BEHIND ONE'S BACK

Definition: BEHIND ONE'S BACK

BEHIND ONE'S BACK

1. When one is absent; without one's knowledge; as, to ridicule a person behind his back.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Absence

Adverb: without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in default of; sans; behind one's back.

Concealment

Underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily; Adjective: behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen; incognito; in camera.

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Inaction

Adverb: re infecta, at a stand, les bras croisis, with folded arms; with the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back; pour passer le temps.

Latency Implication

Adverb: by a side wind; sub silentio; in the background; behind the scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly; between the lines.

Oblivion

Unlearn; efface; , discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of; (turn the attention from); cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones;(forgive).

Rear

Adverb: behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "BEHIND ONE'S BACK": speak ill of behind one's back ♦ with the hands behind one's back. Additional references.

Afrikaans

in die geheim (underhand). (various references)

Albanian

fshehtas (secretly, underhand). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متخلف (absent, ataxy, backward, falling behind, lagging, sloven, truant, underdeveloped). (various references)

Chinese 

背著手 (with one's hands clasped behind one's back). (various references)

Dutch

stiekem (underhand), achterbaks (underhand). (various references)

Esperanto

kaŝite (underhand). (various references)

Frisian

efterbaks (underhand). (various references)

Greek 

κρυφά (in secret, secretly, slinkingly), πίσω από την πλάτη. (various references)

Hawaiian

fshehtas (underhand). (various references)

Hungarian

tudta nélkül. (various references)

Italian

di nascosto (underhand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陰で . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�'で. (various references)

Pig Latin

ehindbay one'say ackbay

Portuguese

atrás de alguém. (various references)

Romanian

pe la spatele cuiva, pe ascuns (by stealth, cagily, close, darkly, hugger mugger, stealthily, underground), din umbrã. (various references)

Spanish

por detrás de uno, a espaldas de uno. (various references)

Proper Noun Anagrams

-5 letters: Bianconese.