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speak ill of

speak ill of verb: to vilify; to defame; to criticize.

Verb

speak ill of (third-person singular simple present speaks ill of, present participle speaking ill of, simple past spoke ill of, past participle spoken ill of)

  1. To vilify; to defame; to criticize.
    • Jimmy Carter was the first former president to speak ill of a sitting president while on foreign soil2010 March, R Emmett Tyrrell Jr, “The Lost Liberals”, in American Spectator, volume 43, number 2, page 70

speak ill of meaning in Malayalam

speak ill of in Malayalam

criticize, denigrate, disparage
അപകീർത്തിപ്പെടുത്തുക, കരിതേച്ചുകാണിക്കുക, അപലപിക്കുക, വിമർശിക്കുക, നിരൂപിക്കുക, തൊലിയുരിക്കുക

Synonyms of speak ill of

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Antonyms

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Forms of speak ill of

third-person singular presentspeaks ill of
present participlespeaking ill of
pastspoke ill of
past participlespoken ill of

Questions about speak ill of

What does speak ill of mean?
Speak ill of means to vilify; to defame; to criticize.
What is speak ill of in Malayalam?
Speak ill of in Malayalam is അപകീർത്തിപ്പെടുത്തുക, കരിതേച്ചുകാണിക്കുക, അപലപിക്കുക. See Speak ill of meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is speak ill of?
Speak ill of is a verb.
What is the past tense of speak ill of?
The past tense of speak ill of is spoke ill of.

Words near speak ill of in the dictionary

  1. speak by the card
  2. speak down to
  3. speak for
  4. speak for oneself
  5. speak highly
  6. speak ill of
  7. speak in circles
  8. speak in dollars
  9. speak in terms
  10. speak in tongues
  11. speak like a book

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speak ill of (page history and authors); speak ill of (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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