Citations:backstabby

Adjective: "characteristic of deceit and treachery"

 * 2000 — Don Aucoin, "Live! From Lexington, It's Rachel Dratch", Boston Globe, 18 February 2000:
 * That would seem to be a recipe for constant tension but Dratch says that backstage at SNL is not a competitive backstabby kind of atmosphere.
 * 2003 — Michael Musto, "New York Films", Village Voice, 30 December 2003:
 * In Hollywood's eyes, New York is generally either a glistening paradise of glamour and romance or a backstabby cesspool of depravity and lies.
 * "You keep meeting everyone you're up against at lunches for nominees, so you end up holding hands for one another."
 * 2008 — Micol Ostow, Popular Vote, Scholastic Inc. (2008), ISBN 9780545075213, page 63:
 * "How do you know any of this? Did you talk to Logan?" There's no way that she talked to Logan. That would just be weird. And a little bit backstabby.
 * 2009 — Sue Halpern, Can't Remember What I Forgot: Your Memory, Your Mind, Your Future, Random House (2009), ISBN 9780307407887, page 143:
 * "Science offers constraints on what you can think. Science is the system that brings people in contact with the real world. Which they don't spend too much time in, it turns out, intellectually. Here's the real world and here's science"—only he kept working on this drawing of the brain, adding a cortex and ventricles. "Science is just as faddy, bitchy, and backstabby as everything else. […]