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parlare male — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • backbite verb To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
  • badmouth verb To criticize or speak ill of someone, often unfairly or behind their back.
  • denigrate verb To criticize so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.

Senses

parlare male is used for these senses in English:

  • backbite To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
  • badmouth (informal, transitive) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
  • denigrate (transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.

backbite — full definition

  1. verb To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
  2. verb To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
  3. verb To speak badly of an absent individual.

Related Italian words