| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bad·mouth |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b d mouth , -mouth |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or bad-mouth |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: bad·mouthed, bad·mouth·ing, bad·mouths
Informal To criticize or disparage, often spitefully or unfairly: “those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway” (Benedict Nightingale).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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