📚 Bad-mouth, verb. ❓ Definition (informal • with object): Criticize (someone) behind their back. ❗️ Examples: 1. No one wants to hire an individual who bad-mouths a prior employer. 2. As if I had enough to fill my plate, now I have to worry about my ex-best friend bad-mouthing me behind my back. 3. We don't have to be character assassins, we don't have to issue screeds, we don't have to be bad-mouthing other people, but we do have to use logic and reason and persuasion and show why our positions really make more sense for America. 4. We were willing to let it go, but they are bad-mouthing him. 5. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic