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• v  speak unfavorably about
  She badmouths her husband everywhere

• When such inequities crop up, parents need to be on guard not to be angry with the child who got the goodies and not to badmouth the relative who paid for the expensive gift, says .

• malign
• traduce
• drag through the mud

News & Articles

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• GOP lawmaker criticizes Fallin over GRDA panel formation
  We all like to badmouth Washington, D.C., and we all enjoy badmouthing President Obama,said Rep. Doug Cox, R-Grove. "One of the things we say about him is that he is bypassing Congress and ruling by executive order.
  July 11, 2013 - Tulsa World

Quotes

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• Mike Skinner in USA Today
  Asked about the rash of yellow flags, Skinner said, "I don't want to badmouth anybody, but there's some people out there who have been around a while who need to calm down. They should know better by this time."
• Randeep Hooda in NDTV.com
  At this, a fuming Randeep said, "If you don t want to promote the film, don t promote it, but don t go out of your way to badmouth the film. It s highly unethical and absolutely unprofessional. I don t see any sleazy promotion. By not promoting the...
• George Osborne in Telegraph.co.uk
  Just because I'm that good old independent-minded Arkansas person who's going to be working hard for Arkansas, people have decided that since I'm not with them 100 percent of the time, they're going to come in this state and try to badmouth me and... Blanche Lincoln http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Lincoln&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHxThxiKXWLUf4hHgMpbH8lZ1h18w U.S. News & World Report http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/05/17/lincoln-outside-groups-trying-make-example-of-her.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGdn22iRxzUYexl15AJ_BGYXPAcJg May 17, 2010 7534 10816 badness Asked just how bad the Budget measures would be, he said: I do not see it as badness - I see it as decisive action to deal with Britain's record budget deficit." "We sit here as the country in Europe with the largest budget deficit of any...