slag off

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Translations
يَنْتَقِدُ
pomluvit
brokke sig over
runtermachen
δυσφημώ
poner por los suelos
sättiä
critiquer
ogovarati
sparlare
けなす
혹평하다
afkraken
fjerne slaggslenge dritt
obsmarować
criticar
критиковать
tala illa om
ด่าว่า
hakkında kötü konuşmak
nói xấu
诋毁

w>slag off

vt sep (Brit inf: = run down) → miesmachen (inf), → runtermachen (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

slag off

يَنْتَقِدُ pomluvit brokke sig over runtermachen δυσφημώ poner por los suelos sättiä critiquer ogovarati sparlare けなす 혹평하다 afkraken fjerne slagg obsmarować criticar критиковать tala illa om ด่าว่า hakkında kötü konuşmak nói xấu 诋毁
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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I don't understand how you allow such a bigoted, smallminded and ignorant man to write editorials that slag off the entire population of Britain's second city in your paper, a Birmingham paper!
The puppets of politicians can spout off the same nonsense, slag off the Tories and the state of the town, blame Margaret Thatcher for everything else.
I WONDER why Examiner journalist Dave Himelfield (Examiner, March 11) felt the need to 'slag off' the ukulele as a 'toy' instrument.
It is embarrassing when people come to the house and slag off the work." ( ANI )
You couldn't even slag off their acting - they weren't supposed to be.
Two vertical rows of toothed tools press onto the slat and move forward through the slats, scraping the slag off each slat with a smooth forward motion.
SIR - In response to former Labour AM Tom Middlehurst doesn't it speak volumes that he manages to slag off Plaid Cymru AMs for refusing their 8.3% pay rise in recognition of public sector pay cuts, but has no criticism for his own Labour Government's actions in forcing the pay cuts through in the first place (Letters, March 13)!
HOWDID that so-called comedian Tarbuck have the front to stand on the stage at the Liverpool Empire and slag off the people of the city of Liverpool for being thieves?
Last week they ordered poor little Rory Egan (no, I've never heard of him either) to slag off yours truly.
It is our choice whether we want to just continue to skim the slag off the top of the furnace by focusing on the easy problems that others most solve or dig into what is immersed in the molten metal that we can solve ourselves.
Opposition parties this week jumped on a bandwagon to slag off the National Assembly's free school breakfast scheme.
A couple of months ago whizzkid Melbourne architect Sean Godsell was apparently getting it from the local architectural institute for daring in the press to slag off 'Smart-arse architecture that shocks you once', referring, I gather, to some recent proto-blob architecture in his city.
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