bad-mouthed

verb

past tense of bad-mouth
as in dismissed
to express scornfully one's low opinion of she promptly bad-mouthed that awful movie to everyone she knew

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad-mouthed
  1. dismissed
  2. minimized
  3. criticized
  4. diminished
  5. disparaged
  6. denigrated
Verb
  • The North has denied responsibility for the incident and dismissed Seoul's demand to apologize and remove its remaining mines.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Three weeks before the election, the chairman of Israel’s Central Elections Committee dismissed the case, but the AID Coalition agreed not to buy more blocks on additional flights.
    — Daniel Brook, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of dismissed
Verb
  • Such acknowledgment matters, particularly when historical injustices have been repeatedly minimized or excluded from official narratives.
    — Brooke N. Newman, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Abrams, also an Atlantan, had served previously as state House minority leader, a role Republicans minimized as insufficient experience.
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of minimized
Verb
  • Thompson has criticized the self-funding, while Jones has fired back by pointing at the incumbent’s history of accepting corporate donations.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Sand criticized Iowa's education savings account, or voucher, program, which uses public money to help families pay private school tuition.
    — Sheila Brummer, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of criticized
Verb
  • As with many early American utopian communities, their ranks diminished after the Civil War, but a small band of Shakers has persisted at Sabbathday.
    — Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Somewhat diminished in the film’s erratic attempts to contextualize this ever-metastasizing sickness is Odeh himself.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of diminished
Verb
  • Trump has similarly disparaged other federal judges who have ruled against his interests.
    — Miles J. Zaremski, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Clayburn further testified that Gonzalez and her family routinely disparaged Avery in front of his daughter.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of disparaged
Verb
  • Today, some of Nashville’s biggest stars have aligned themselves with (or shrewdly eschewed criticism of) a political movement that has denigrated countless demographic groups, including Punjabi immigrants.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Newsom’s film speaks directly to harm inflicted on young women who are routinely denigrated on social media and who face constant scrutiny of their appearance and comportment through online platforms.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of denigrated
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“Bad-mouthed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad-mouthed. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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