But, of course, one ought not speak ill of the recently departed.

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Does the law protect your right to speak ill of your boss?

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By the time she graduated from high school, at the age of twenty, she had scarcely ever heard anyone speak ill of Scientology.

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Bob Chaundy, former obituaries editor at BBC News, says there used to be a convention in obits, particularly in print, that you didn't speak ill of the dead, but that went by the wayside by the 1980s.

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As you might guess, I have a lot of ill I could speak of Hitchens, as I disagree with him about so very, very much.

FORBES: Christopher Hitchens, A Fighter To the End (1949 - 2011)

This habit of playing games (not to speak of Monopoly) seemed ill-bred and dishonorable to Pereda.

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