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present participle of bad-mouth
Synonyms & Antonyms of bad-mouthing
to express scornfully one's low opinion of
- she promptly bad-mouthed that awful movie to everyone she knew
Synonyms for bad-mouthing
- belittling,
- crying down,
- decrying,
- denigrating,
- deprecating,
- depreciating,
- derogating,
- diminishing,
- discounting,
- dismissing,
- disparaging,
- dissing
- [slang],
- kissing off,
- minimizing,
- playing down,
- poor-mouthing,
- putting down,
- running down,
- talking down,
- trashing,
- trash-talking,
- vilipending,
- writing off
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