badmouth
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbæd.maʊθ/
badmouth (badmouths, present participle badmouthing; past badmouthed, past participle badmouthed)
- (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
- 1987 August 30, Benedict Nightingale, Theater: England's Endless Love Affair with Farce ↗, New York Times (retrieved 22 July 2013):
- . . . those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway.
- 1987 August 30, Benedict Nightingale, Theater: England's Endless Love Affair with Farce ↗, New York Times (retrieved 22 July 2013):
- French: dénigrer, déprécier, débiner
- German: schlechtreden, schlechtmachen
- Portuguese: falar mal
- Russian: черни́ть
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