badmouth

Related to badmouth: open mouth

bad·mouth

or bad-mouth (băd′mouth′, -mouth′)

tr.v. bad·mouthed, bad·mouth·ing, bad·mouths or bad-mouthed or bad-mouth·ing or bad-mouths Informal

To criticize or disparage, often spitefully or unfairly: "those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway" (Benedict Nightingale).

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Verb

badmouth - speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere"

drag through the mud, malign, traduce

asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smirch, denigrate, sully, smear - charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"

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badmouth

[ˈbædˌmaʊθ] VT → hablar pestes de

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