Thesaurus / poor-mouth

poor-mouth

How to use poor-mouth in a sentence

This boy was a prisoner, too, and yet he turns up all right and puts up a poor mouth about what he failed to do.

Not once did they put up a poor mouth and beg the Government to come to their help.

Poor mouth; making the poor mouth is trying to persuade people you are very poor—making out or pretending that you are poor.

See, children, just as soon as I say a word, mad like a wet hen he gets and right away puts on a poor mouth.

And yet I am told that the old woman was not accustomed to "make a poor mouth," as the saying goes.

But he took a curious, excited pleasure in the thought of the 'poor mouth' he was going to make to Hannah.

Why, she'd hand it out to the first feller that put up a poor mouth and asked her for it.

And they scorn to make a poor mouth over their poverty, which I take to be the better part of manliness.

But the five pence came in too rapidly for the almanac-maker to persist in putting up a poor mouth of this kind.

His bridle is not properly adjusted, hurting his poor mouth fearfully and causing it to bleed.

CAMPINGALEXANDRA G. LOCKWINE

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985