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Recent Examples of bad-mouth John Legend isn't about to let anyone bad-mouth the people in his hometown of Springfield, Ohio. Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2024 He was eventually allowed in — but only after other SEALs threatened to leave and bad-mouth the bar. Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 21 June 2024 Sabatini, a former state rep, has kissed up slavishly to Donald Trump, often by repeatedly bad-mouthing fellow Republicans — including Ron DeSantis — in an effort to curry favor with the former president. Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2024 Falsified emails get dispersed to bad-mouth programs. Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023 BlenderBot 3 is still available online, despite it bad-mouthing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and saying all kinds of offensive things. Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Mar. 2023 Such agreements, including broad nondisparagement and confidentiality requirements, are widely used in layoffs or workplace legal disputes as a way for employers to ensure that employees won’t bad-mouth the company after the ink dries. Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad-mouth
Verb
  • Coach Joe Wyatt, formerly an El Camino Real head coach, was dismissed by the Royals in 2022.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Starmer also dismissed calls to cancel a royal invitation from King Charles to the U.S. President for a U.K. state visit, an offer presented by the British leader at the Oval Office Thursday.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Windows users can minimize data collection by adjusting their privacy settings under 'Diagnostics & feedback.' 2.
    Alex Vakulov, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • That last category refers to minimizing false positives, which are instances when the antivirus flags a valid program as malicious.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Musk has repeatedly criticized Social Security, one of the government's most popular programs, and DOGE staffers have been working inside the agency.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Hutchins’ mother, Olga Solovey, has criticized Baldwin’s response.
    Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The intense criticism of the COVID response has left a lingering public distrust in health and diminished their influence.
    Tina Reed, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The seeming smallness of the story does nothing to diminish the film’s bleakness nor blunt its ultimately devastating impact.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The post, featuring a collage of their graphic design artwork and screenshots of disparaging comments, has been upvoted more than 207,000 times to date.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Much of that goodwill disappeared mere weeks after the nominations when enterprising X users dug up some of Gascón's old tweets which revealed a pattern of bigoted viewpoints, with disparaging comments about Islam among the most egregious.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • State of play: Trump has made cracking down on immigration one of the cornerstone goals of his second term and has a history of denigrating non-English speaking immigrants.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The agency was also the subject of a House committee hearing on February 5, during which Rep. Nancy Mace repeatedly used a transphobic slur to denigrate U.S. support for LGBTQ+ programs abroad.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 12 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • During his visit to Europe last week, however, Mr. Vance belittled the idea that a foreign adversary like Russia could sway an election in a strong democratic nation, referring to accusations that resulted in Romania overturning the first round of voting in its election.
    Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • In a way, the elimination of the penny is the perfect sort of move for our new, belittling leader.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 15 Feb. 2025

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“Bad-mouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad-mouth. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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