Thesaurus results for MOUTHING (OFF)

mouthing (off)

verb

present participle of mouth (off)

as in speaking

to talk as if giving an important and formal speech some crank mouthing off in the center of town to anyone who would listen

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Nowhere in the world do nonprofessionals (strictly speaking) merit the attention that the college football player here does.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Broadly speaking, many prominent Silicon Valley companies started in a place of technological service and innovation only to have more recently shifted into the dystopia business, and public sentiment has shifted in kind.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of speaking

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This is Edward, the aging King of England, talking to the ambitious noble Harold Godwinson.

— John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
While talking with reporters Wednesday, Payton was asked how Denver was preparing for Mahomes, who is coming off major knee surgery in December.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of talking

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And the conversations between Anna and Molly, Ella and Julia (Ella’s friend and a counterpart of Molly), as well as the stammering and declaiming when Anna talks to herself, are almost always about men.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
More often, though, Tallent demonstrates his characters’ precarity rather than declaiming about it.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026

Definition of declaiming

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Under the new system, one voice from a non-selector will introduce each candidate by simply announcing his name and sharing his resume.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Her sister Erin created a GoFundMe page announcing that she was hospitalized with severe pneumonia and a bacterial infection in her blood.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026

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