"speak ill of" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "speak well of"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speaks ill of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speaking ill of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoke ill of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoken ill of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "speak<,,spoke,spoken> ill of"
      },
      "expansion": "speak ill of (third-person singular simple present speaks ill of, present participle speaking ill of, simple past spoke ill of, past participle spoken ill of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 March, R Emmett Tyrrell Jr, “The Lost Liberals”, in American Spectator, volume 43, number 2, page 70",
          "text": "Jimmy Carter was the first former president to speak ill of a sitting president while on foreign soil",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To vilify; to defame; to criticize."
      ],
      "id": "en-speak_ill_of-en-verb-8bij5J-F",
      "links": [
        [
          "vilify",
          "vilify"
        ],
        [
          "defame",
          "defame"
        ],
        [
          "criticize",
          "criticize"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "talk shit (slang, vulgar)",
          "word": "to vilify"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to vilify",
          "word": "dire du mal de"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to vilify",
          "word": "médire de"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to vilify",
          "word": "pór podre"
        },
        {
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "kakēgoréō",
          "sense": "to vilify",
          "word": "κακηγορέω"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to vilify",
          "word": "taiaroa"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "speak ill of"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "speak well of"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speaks ill of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speaking ill of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoke ill of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoken ill of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "speak<,,spoke,spoken> ill of"
      },
      "expansion": "speak ill of (third-person singular simple present speaks ill of, present participle speaking ill of, simple past spoke ill of, past participle spoken ill of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 March, R Emmett Tyrrell Jr, “The Lost Liberals”, in American Spectator, volume 43, number 2, page 70",
          "text": "Jimmy Carter was the first former president to speak ill of a sitting president while on foreign soil",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To vilify; to defame; to criticize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vilify",
          "vilify"
        ],
        [
          "defame",
          "defame"
        ],
        [
          "criticize",
          "criticize"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "talk shit (slang, vulgar)",
      "word": "to vilify"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to vilify",
      "word": "dire du mal de"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to vilify",
      "word": "médire de"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to vilify",
      "word": "pór podre"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "kakēgoréō",
      "sense": "to vilify",
      "word": "κακηγορέω"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to vilify",
      "word": "taiaroa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "speak ill of"
}