Usage examples (12)

• Flaherty knows full-well the fiscal reality of the various provinces as opposed to the poor-mouth they like to put on for the cameras.
• This is a goldmine is useful information, including a clear indication that those who seek to poor-mouth the provincial government's revenues are dead wrong.
• Meanwhile both sides are already playing the expectations game -- as two talented debaters poor-mouth their own skills while making the other out to be a latter-day Cicero.
• Who thought it would be a good idea for the wife of the former chairman of Enron to poor-mouth before a national TV audience that probably included hundreds who had lost...