bad-mouth

Example Sentences

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“I don’t want to bad mouth him but he wanted to keep managing. He just couldn’t accept not being there. That’s just the way it was.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

"It's never a good idea to post publicly about your break-up, to bad mouth them," William says.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2023

I’m sure they’ll bad mouth me either way, but then I won’t care.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2017

Djokovic, for his part, refused to bad mouth the fans, which according to reports, also booed and jeered him during the three-hour, 20-minute match.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2015

They’d put the bad mouth on their aunt’s first American day; you had to sweeten their noisy barbarous mouths.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston