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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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Typically, during a period of internal tension, President Mahmoud Abbas embarks on diplomatic visits abroad--not to lessen the embargo or raise salaries for government workers, but to continue bad-mouthing the elected Hamas government.
``When the Dixie Chicks went overseas and talked bad about this country's president, it was like they were bad-mouthing this country.
They might go from applauding Bill C-38 or same sex "marriage" to bad-mouthing pro-life; to allowing some couples to live together without marriage; even to minimize or totally ignore the state of grace essential to receive Holy Communion; and to openly promote women's ordinations, in spite of that subject having been closed lately by the Vicar of Christ.
 
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