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badmouth

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bad·mouth or bad-mouth  (bdmouth, -mou)
tr.v. bad·mouthed or bad-mouthed, bad·mouth·ing or bad-mouth·ing, bad·mouths or bad-mouths Informal
To criticize or disparage, often spitefully or unfairly: "those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway" (Benedict Nightingale).
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Verb1.badmouthbadmouth - speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere"
asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smirch, denigrate, sully, smear - charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
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badmouth [ˈbædˌmaʊθ] VThablar pestes de


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refuses to badmouth the trend, even if he was at one point "a loser in the system," as he refers to his inability to read and make the grades by those standards.
It's hard to find anyone who will badmouth the concept of selective monetary rewards for excellent performers, whether doctors or chief executives.
``But one thing I always tried to teach him was to never badmouth people, because you never know what could happen.
 
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