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bad-mouth

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bad-mouth someone or something
to say negative things about someone or something. Mr. Smith was always bad-mouthing Mrs. Smith. They just didn't get along. John bad-mouths his car constantly because it is too small for him.

bad-mouth somebody/something
to say unpleasant things about someone or something, especially in order to spoil other people's opinions of them She's always bad-mouthing her colleagues. Bad-mouthing the police is hardly an original occupation.


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``It started out being very antagonistic, and the implied threat was that they were somehow going to go against us and sort of bad-mouth what our efforts were.
Moreover, these bad profits can create legions of detractors who bad-mouth the company and switch their allegiance to competitors.
I don't want to bad-mouth my school, but there were at least a dozen people I know of who were on steroids," Lee says, adding: "It was in-your-face.
 
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