Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. 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).
Wiktionary
- v. informal To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
WordNet 3.0
- v. speak unfavorably about
Etymologies
- Calque from Mandinka. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's already been mentioned that all the other film studios and filmmakers badmouth each other for the prize anyway (surprise, surprise).”
“It also not a place for a FAKE Reverend to badmouth people and to attempt to take their rights.”
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“Now, I ain't no Yankee and I didn't badmouth Texas.”
“I notice your articles take every opertunity to badmouth Bush, no political agenda there!”
“For the past ten years, Kelly has done nothing but badmouth the FBI.”
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“She also worried that Sandy might one day go to the manager and badmouth her.”
“But I will not badmouth the detachable magazine option.”
“Agian, I am not trying to badmouth IMSS as a whole .... just saying that there are situations that can accure in the IMSS system, where one would be glad to have a private insurance company if it was affordable. esperanza”
“It's easy to badmouth the USA, but Mexico certainly has its own issues.”
“Some people on this forum may badmouth the US and judge it, but that's the easy way out, as far as I am concerned.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘badmouth’.
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Public List: Body Metaphors
Phrases that use body parts metaphorically.
neck of the woods, bone of contention, mouth of a river, teeth of the storm, heart of the matter, foot of the bed, eye of the storm, dogleg hole, finger lakes, headwaters, foothills, knik arm and 212 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Censure (v.)
Someone must have had an inferiority complex.
vituperate, vilify, trounce, traduce, slander, scold, revile, reprove, reprimand, reprehend, remonstrate, rebuke and 37 more...
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-mouth
I'm a sucker for a suffix, especially one after me own moniker
flannelmouth, cottonmouth, madmouth, foot-in-mouth, bigmouth, Dartmouth, wooly mammouth, badmouth, buttermouth, cross-mouth, fatmouth, flap-mouth and 38 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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bobodod's Words
cultie, screwery, gauge, wanker, truthiness, harangue, mediocre, ragamuffin, elysian, spoonerism, loquacious, apostle and 240 more...
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A Mouthy List
Mouth words and phrases. Also check out this mouth list.
mouthful, mouthpiece, mouth-watering, mouthwash, mouthfeel, mouth-filling, mouthguard, mouth breather, mouthpart, mouthless, mouther, mouth-hole and 81 more...
Tweets
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john Opposite of goodmouth. Aug 31, 2007