sparlare — meaning in English
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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.
- knock verb To strike something, especially a door, sharply with the knuckles or an object.
Senses
sparlare 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.
- knock (transitive, colloquial, originally, US) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
backbite — full definition
- verb To say unkind, untrue things about someone.
- verb To criticise someone nastily while they aren't there to hear it.
- verb To talk unkindly about someone who is not present.
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