poor-mouth
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The city can’t cry poor-mouth, pleading a lack of money as a defense for allowing this outrageous condition to exist.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2019
He’d have to make a call, poor-mouth into the phone until his father’s wallet spit out more bills.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2013
On other the hand, in a contentious divorce, the goal is typically to poor-mouth your personal balance sheet as much as possible.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2010
Farmers have been known to poor-mouth it in the past.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cushing could count on the piddling $1,000,000 voted by the state, but even in his most poor-mouth moment, he never envisioned that the games could be staged for less than $2,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Manfred has poor-mouthed the experience of team ownership, asserting that most owners could have done better by investing in the stock market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
He gave Katherine Heigl time to describe getting snubbed at a restaurant by her “Knocked Up” co-star Seth Rogen because she had poor-mouthed the movie in a Vanity Fair interview.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2016
He poor-mouthed to reporters that Brother Martin was bigger than Louisiana State and Tulane.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2012
"Maybe I poor-mouthed his chances too much, but I think he could have been nominated."
From Time Magazine Archive
The sharks and other large fishes, which have appeared in the Silurian, easily displace these clumsy and poor-mouthed competitors One almost thinks of the aeroplane superseding the navigable balloon.
From The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe
Any poor-mouthing attempts by MLB were preempted last week by the release of the Atlanta Braves’ financial statements, revealing a $104 million profit in 2021.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Consumer advocates naturally are skeptical of the utilities' poor-mouthing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2018
As for the Bells' poor-mouthing, Holland quips, "If anybody thinks they'll invest more money in their networks if they get their monopoly back, I've got some swampland in Texas to sell."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sanford further claims, convincingly, that despite Nader's poor-mouthing, his major lobbying organization, Public Citizen Inc., had a net worth of $1.3 million as of 1974, the date of its most recent public report.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor did the fans feel very sorry for the owners, who, despite their poor-mouthing, toss about millions of dollars, largely, it sometimes seems, for the privilege of hanging about their employees' locker room.
From Time Magazine Archive
