Usually means: Speak negatively about someone else.
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  1. bad-mouth: Merriam-Webster
  2. bad-mouth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bad-mouth, bad-mouth: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bad-mouth: Wordnik
  5. bad-mouth: Wiktionary
  6. bad-mouth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. bad-mouth: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. bad-mouth: Dictionary.com
  9. bad-mouth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. bad-mouth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. bad-mouth: ESL Idiom Page
  12. bad-mouth: Merriam-Webster

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  1. bad-mouth: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bad-mouth)

▸ verb:  Alternative spelling of badmouth [(informal, transitive) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.]

Similar:
back-bite, smack-talk, criticise, trashtalk, misfavour, lambast, illtreat, back-chat, back chat, harrumph, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, applaud, commend, laud

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Similar:
back-bite, smack-talk, criticise, trashtalk, misfavour, lambast, illtreat, back-chat, back chat, harrumph, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, applaud, commend, laud



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