parlare male — meaning in English

English meaning

• backbite verb To say unkind, untrue things about someone.
• badmouth verb To criticize or speak ill of someone, often unfairly or behind their back.
• denigrate verb To criticize someone unfairly in a way that damages their reputation.

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 say unkind, untrue things about someone.
2. verb To criticise someone nastily while they aren't there to hear it.
3. verb To talk unkindly about someone who is not present.

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