How to Use mouth off in a Sentence
mouth off
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Episode 4 flips the script on the trope of a friend screwing up by mouthing off to the wrong person at the worst time.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
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His biggest expression forever has been fighting or mouthing off.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
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And Brinson could tell that this new inmate, Jennifer Gomez, was raging — fighting with other inmates, mouthing off to the guards.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
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Next, McQuoid and his team spent months developing the signature fight scene at the Tarkatan village, in which Johnny Cage mouths off to Baraka.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
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The mix of government regulation, broadcaster responsibilities, and the public interest in allowing entertainers to mouth off over the airwaves has come into sharp relief recently due to a single line in a monologue by Jimmy Kimmel.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
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