Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
all evil speakings: This word suggests speaking down to another person, slandering, backbiting. Peter says to lay these things aside. "Evil speakings" are slanderous statements about others. Literally such is "speaking down" another. The same Greek word (katalalia) is translated "backbiting" in 11 Corinthians 12:20, the only other passage in which this word is used.