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
Don’t split loyalties, and never bad-mouth your co-parent.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 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
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
One night, well into one of those dinners of fine food and finer storytelling, Majerus answered the puzzling question of why Knight bad-mouthed Wooden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
For years, T-Mobile’s chief executive, John Legere, has gleefully bad-mouthed his much larger mobile phone competitors, Verizon Wireless and AT&T, for their high prices and profit margins, and their low-quality service.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2019
The stakes are higher now than being bad-mouthed on the radio, but Wasser doesn’t let that stop him from traveling to Africa.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2019
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
Judging from the near-universal backlash to Timothée Chalamet’s recent bad-mouthing of ballet, Eden’s summation of the central tenet of their show may be true.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
Referring to the audit, it added: "The FFF nevertheless notes that the report is based less on objective facts than on comments that have sometimes led to exaggerated bad-mouthing of the body."
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2023
Basically, he heard Jack bad-mouthing him and saying really horrible things behind his back.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
