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Verb: drag through the mud
  1. Speak unfavourably about
    - badmouth [informal], malign, traduce

Derived forms: dragging through the mud, drags through the mud, dragged through the mud

Type of: asperse, besmirch, calumniate [formal], defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully