If even a few are bad-mouthing you or simply exhibit a meh attitude your brand is getting tarnished.

FORBES: Make Your Company Top-of-Mind and Your Employees Proud

Has the public scolding and the NFL tsk-tsk about bad-mouthing finally penetrated?

WSJ: Why Are the Jets Being So Polite?

She should have spoken like this only to her close and fellow bad-mouthing friends, Virgie and Carol, women around her own age, which was sixty-two.

NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

While fellow bubble poster child Henry Blodget was kicked out of the securities business after privately bad-mouthing stocks on which he had buy ratings, investigators never laid a glove on Meeker.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Western officials have been bad-mouthing Ahmed Wali for years.

ECONOMIST: Afghanistan

Warren Buffett has long been resistant to gold fever, frequently dismissing the yellow metal as an investment because it produces no income, most recently bad-mouthing the asset in his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter.

FORBES: Don't Forget Buffett Missed Apple And Google, State Street's Gold Guy Says

Mr. Bray, who owned two Quiznos restaurants in Killeen, Texas, says he was sued by the company for bad-mouthing it to fellow franchisees and sold his two stores back to Quiznos in 2007, as part of his settlement.

WSJ: LBO, Recession Singe Quiznos