How to Use bad-mouth in a Sentence
bad-mouth
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He also bad-mouths my son’s wife.
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Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
8 June 2026
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Most of the people who were bad-mouthing Titanic had not seen so much as a minute of film.
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Stacy Lambe,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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This is not some glossy revisionist history of a person’s life; the man had a beautiful soul who didn’t have it in him to bad-mouth a cockroach.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Sep. 2025
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Ranting on LinkedIn and bad-mouthing your ex-employer or naming and shaming your last negative recruitment experience won’t help you either.
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Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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At one point, Brown stepped away from the set, and co-stars Antoni Porowski, Tan France and Jonathan van Ness began bad-mouthing him behind his back, while his mom heard the whole conversation, according to TMZ.
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Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
21 Jan. 2026
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