drag through the mud

1. 1.

   speak unfavorably about

   “She badmouths her husband everywhere”

   Synonymsbadmouthmaligntraduce

   Broaderdefame

Questions about drag through the mud

What does drag through the mud mean?

drag through the mud means "speak unfavorably about".

What is another word for drag through the mud?

Close synonyms include badmouth, malign, traduce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drag through the mud a common word?

drag through the mud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.