bad-mouth
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Trying to get Pete Carroll to bad-mouth a former player of his is like trying to get an Auburn fan to yell “Roll Tide!”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
Macchio also made the decision to never bad-mouth the Karate Kid films, even if he was frustrated with the direction his career had taken.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2022
“Some people bad-mouth America, but in reality, it’s a good country,” said Yoneha, who came to the U.S. from Okinawa on a whim 50 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
The mayor then went on vacation to the Southwest, leaving the governor to use his absence to make calls to bad-mouth him.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2021
Pa said, “I advise caution, Leroy. I ain’t trying to bad-mouth no one, but how much we really know ’bout Zephariah?
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
She also alleged that employees of the agency bad-mouthed NewJeans on internal communication app and asked a journalist to downplay the group's record sales in one article.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024
At the time, people bad-mouthed her for missing performances.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
On “The Howard Stern Show,” Chase said he later discovered that another “SNL” cast member, John Belushi, had bad-mouthed him to Murray before the encounter, laying the groundwork for their backstage brawl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Some of the detectives also contended Crenshaw pushed subordinates he didn’t like out of his unit and often bad-mouthed and pressured those who took vacation, sick leave or training days, detectives claimed.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
Realizing that he was up against two big, competent mice who would stand no nonsense, he became abusive and bad-mouthed.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Your boss may be bad-mouthing you to others.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
Mere hours before her own debate with Trump, Biden called her and demanded to know if she’d been bad-mouthing him to donors.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2025
Hanni further alleged that she had seen employees bad-mouthing NewJeans on Blind - an app for internal communications similar to Teams or Slack.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024
He followed up by bad-mouthing them as incompetent, stupid or worse.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
I mean, I can’t imagine any Decker who would spend precious time praising or bad-mouthing the foundation.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
