bad mouth
恶口,恶嘴,糟糕的嘴巴,糟糕的嘴
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bad-mouthed, bad-mouth·ing.
- : Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
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We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.
Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.
They all immediately dashed out to their car to catch the bad guys.
Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”
Aristide washed and powdered Jean himself, the landlord lounging by, pipe in mouth, administering suggestions.
Sol got up, slowly; took a backward step into the yard; filled his lungs, opened his mouth, made his eyes round.
But such a thing had, nevertheless, come quite glibly out of her mouth, and she knew not why.
Miss Smith immediately rises from the table, puts up her dear little mouth to her papa to be kissed.
The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.