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maligned

[ muh-lahynd ]

adjective

  1. spoken ill of; defamed or slandered:

    I pointed to my unweeded yard full of bees and waxed rhapsodic about the benefits of the maligned dandelion.

    Considered by many to be a usurper and murderer, Richard III is one of the most maligned kings in history.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of malign ( def ).

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  • un·ma·ligned adjective

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Example Sentences

Biographer Andrew Roberts argues that history has maligned Napoleon by lumping him in with totalitarian thugs.

It's a place where minorities are degraded and maligned for fun.

Even the much-maligned Free Syrian Army numbers 70,000 to 90,000.

“Haters gonna hate” makes the person who says it into an automatic martyr, persecuted, misunderstood, maligned.

But a study out of Notre Dame this month appears to offer some support for the much-maligned tests.

One charm it has, which is felt while there and pleasantly remembered in absence—its much-maligned climate.

Some of them seem to have been the friends and teachers of the far-famed, and I believe unjustly maligned, Robert Browne.

When we inquire what the Freethinkers, or Rationalists, are, it is readily seen that they have been maligned by "the faithful."

There is no doubt that the Irish regiments are greatly maligned.

Even the much maligned crow lives to some extent upon insects.

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