Usually means: Speak negatively about someone else.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word badmouth:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. badmouth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. badmouth: Vocabulary.com
  3. badmouth: Wordnik
  4. badmouth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. badmouth: Wiktionary
  6. badmouth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. badmouth: Dictionary.com
  8. badmouth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. badmouth: Rhymezone
  10. badmouth: FreeDictionary.org
  11. badmouth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. badmouth: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. badmouth, badmouth, badmouth: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Badmouth: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See badmouthed as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (informal, transitive) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.

Similar:
traduce, malign, drag through the mud, bad-mouth, mean-mouth, put the bad mouth on, bad up, mispraise, speak ill of, talk trash, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, applaud, commend, laud

Types:
slander, libel, defame, malign, calumniate, more...

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Similar:
traduce, malign, drag through the mud, bad-mouth, mean-mouth, put the bad mouth on, bad up, mispraise, speak ill of, talk trash, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, applaud, commend, laud

Types:
slander, libel, defame, malign, calumniate, more...



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