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Discover Ludwig"spoke ill" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to speak unkindly or negatively about someone or something. Example: She always spoke ill of her coworkers behind their backs, but pretended to be friends with them in person.
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Every day, he told her, their colleagues spoke ill of her.
That he was courteous and never spoke ill of anybody, personally or professionally, must have eased the often politically charged atmosphere within which civil servants work.
She will be remembered by many in New York City and Tuxedo Park as a true and constant friend and as one who never spoke ill of another.
Neither Chancellor Klein nor Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott, who also appeared at the news conference, spoke ill of the governor.
Then there was that time he played a part in outing a covert CIA operative because her husband spoke ill of the Bush administration.
TRIPOLI, Libya — Faraj Mohamed cast his eyes across the hospital room with the furtive anxiety Tripoli residents used to display when they spoke ill of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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You spoke ill-advised words that shot out like bullets, and if the e-mails I received from straight and gay young people and sports fans in Los Angeles alone are anything to go by, you did serious damage with your outburst.
Speak ill of the dead?
A journalist does not lightly speak ill of the bench.
— Yes, at last we can speak ill of the living.
"He's never spoken ill of this department".
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