"Poor mouthing" is a phrase used to describe that thing we do when we portray ourselves to be worse off financially than someone else but yet have nicer and better things. Here's an example:

I buy a new pair of shoes for my child that cost $80, and then she comes home from school the next day whining about another child who has had two pair of new shoes from the dollar store on in last two days. She pays zero attention to the fact that she had better quality shoes because she was stuck on the fact that the other child had two pairs.

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