The River Line has been plagued by a general badmouthing.

The badmouthing is symptomatic of panic.

Angrily, she visits the therapist, Dr. Graham (Jane Leeves), to defend herself from what she's sure is Tom's badmouthing.

Long lines, computer glitches, partisan badmouthing and a crazy quilt of local election rules and voting methods fueled charges of everything from simple ineptitude to outright fraud.

But Thomas A. Reppetto, president of the Citizens Crime Commission, said he was concerned that the bad feelings ran far deeper than union-inspired badmouthing of management.

Unlike most places in Karachi, where anti-American sentiment seems to be everywhere, there is little badmouthing of the United States in this spacious home, over trays of Pakistani delicacies.

In his short time at Disney, Mr. Ovitz's aggressive style and hubris have alienated both ABC and Disney studio executives, and have produced a torrent of private and public badmouthing.

A1 Parade Without Bloomberg The Columbus Day Parade crawled up a brilliantly sunny, crisp Fifth Avenue like a society dinner, with fine music and fabulous gowns and hearty badmouthing of people who were not there.

The badmouthing, gossip and smear campaigns that can demolish an opponent as well as direct verbal or physical assaults are now formally known in psychological circles as "indirect aggression," and their patterns are tracked as carefully as punches and kicks.

They know better than anyone that all the badmouthing of men they could manage would not begin to balance the inequality they experience when it comes to the job market - fewer opportunities, low wages, nonexistent child-care facilities and a hopelessly uneven battle to survive if, for example, the father of their children jumps ship and fails to pay any maintenance.