mouth off
phrasal verb
mouthed off; mouthing off; mouths off
informal
: to talk in a loud, unpleasant, or rude way
He got in trouble again for mouthing off to his teacher.
She's always mouthing off about how much better she could run the company herself.
Examples of mouth off in a Sentence
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In 2007, cameras caught him mouthing off to civilians about the Lakers, saying several teammates needed to be shipped out, in a mall parking lot.
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Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
The kind of spice that doesn’t burn your mouth off.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
Curtis told me that the kid was mouthing off, talking about how the retreating glaciers ground down whatever mountains were here, pulverized them into the bed of an ancient sea.
—Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
By Thursday, Bryan was arrested after mouthing off to a police officer after Bryan’s security guard got pulled over.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
Immediately people invested in the doom-loop narrative started mouthing off.
—Curbed, 10 May 2023
Always shootin’ his mouth off, and puttin’ his foot in it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 June 2023
Whoever cut the mouth off a large fish and left it in the Texas sun ought to remember that.
—Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Apr. 2023
Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
The kind of spice that doesn’t burn your mouth off.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
Curtis told me that the kid was mouthing off, talking about how the retreating glaciers ground down whatever mountains were here, pulverized them into the bed of an ancient sea.
—Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
By Thursday, Bryan was arrested after mouthing off to a police officer after Bryan’s security guard got pulled over.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
Immediately people invested in the doom-loop narrative started mouthing off.
—Curbed, 10 May 2023
Always shootin’ his mouth off, and puttin’ his foot in it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 June 2023
Whoever cut the mouth off a large fish and left it in the Texas sun ought to remember that.
—Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Apr. 2023
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“Mouth off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mouth%20off. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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