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badmouth verb to insult someone, to disparage someone US, 1941- “I had to beat the bitch’s ass for bad mouthing you, Mollie,” he said. — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 22, 1964
- Bobby Bodega Pogats, the society stock market operator, has retained Atty. Jim MacInnis to file a slanger suit against the Stock Exchange hotshot who has been badmouthing him. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 29, 2 July 1969
- “[W]hen you threatened him and bad-mouthed him and everything, you were no better than he was.” — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, pp. 43–44, 1970
- Taylor said, “They were bad mouthing our ball players when we were on the way into the locker room. It’s bush.” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 50, 26 January 1972
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