Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BADMOUTH
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
(verb) speak unfavorably about; “She badmouths her husband everywhere”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
badmouth (third-person singular simple present badmouths, present participle badmouthing, simple past and past participle badmouthed)
(informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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