poor-mouth
Example Sentences
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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
Says he: "They used to poor-mouth their economy, but after surviving the international turbulence of the 1970s, they are proud of Japan's economic resilience."
From Time Magazine Archive
"To poor-mouth, to say that we can't afford to make our cities livable, is just shocking to me."
From Time Magazine Archive
