use ill words; words of ill omen
Ancient Greek word, found 12 times in the texts on Socratos.
Euripides, Heracleidae 600: καὶ χαῖρε· δυσφημεῖν γὰρ ἅζομαι θεάν,
Euripides, Hecuba 181: τί με δυσφημεῖς; φροίμιά μοι κακά.
Sophocles, Electra 905: καὶ χερσὶ βαστάσασα δυσφημῶ μὲν οὔ,