Word: badmouthing
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...also popped up immediately but briefly the next morning during a breakfast meeting between Obama and Iowa minority leaders including Ted Williams, president of the African-American Business Association of Des Moines. "He was statesmanlike. His focus is 'I'm not here for that,'" says Williams. "He didn't badmouth Clinton. He's not stupid. He knew that would not be a good tone, that is not presidential? Our focus was more substantive...
When such inequities crop up, parents need to be on guard not to be angry with the child who got the goodies and not to badmouth the relative who paid for the expensive gift, says psychologist Jonathan Pochyly of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Like all attacks on an ex or a new stepparent, negative remarks are deeply destructive to the new, blended family...
You’re a Harvard rebel. You don’t swipe your I.D. at mealtime. You rarely attend lecture. You badmouth your TFs daily, and your blue recycling bin is used solely for stashing empty bottles of Malibu. But if you really want to flout the rules and get yourself a little privacy in your cramped Sophomore walk-through, let FM be your guide to building an illicit but-oh-so-helpful common room partition...
Leveled at the average fan, that’s a pretty harmless criticism. No one would even think to badmouth the guy who goes to two or three games a season and just fools around with his friends in the stands without starting up a single chant of “de-fense” or singing a tune the rest of us will join...
...lust too. Her lyrics aspire to poetry and sometimes get there--"It turns me on to imagine/Your blue eyes on my words" she says on The Letter--but it's her voice that does the heavy lifting. On Cat on the Wall and The Life and Death of Mr. Badmouth, she howls simple phrases until they sound a little like sex and a little like pain. On The Slow Drug, her hush leads into the dead of night as she contemplates a sleeping lover and wonders, "Could you be my calling?" No singer since Janis Joplin has moved as easily...