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bad-mouth
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bad-mouth someone/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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But just because Carroll bad-mouthed UCLA's defense doesn't mean Walker doesn't have respect for him, or has severed ties.
When one parent is put down or bad-mouthed by the other, the child is forced into a painful choice: taking sides.
I wanted to jump into the conversation and fill in the fine points surrounding reports of Tchaikovsky's diapprobation--he was depressed about a lot of things when he bad-mouthed the ballet, I wanted to tell them, and it wasn't even a ballet yet, he was just having trouble getting started with the music.
 
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