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maligned - definition and meaning
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
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adjective language verb malign .
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Examples
"One feels for one's friends when maligned , that is all," said Vaura, carelessly.
A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny
Motherless, with neither brother nor sister, his aged and infirm father dying in Italy, where he could not be permitted to visit him, banished from his native land, jealously watched and menaced by all the allied powers, his fair name maligned , all these considerations seemed to fill his cup of sorrow to the brim.
Hortense Makers of History Series 1841
Over the weekend South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint suggested that marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell could have won her bid for Delaware's Senate seat had she not been so "maligned " by the national GOP.
Could Christine O'Donnell have won? Chris Cillizza 2010
McLeod also asserted that the board had "maligned " another complainant for leaking a confidential board report without sufficient evidence.
Geoffrey Dunn: A Culture of Corruption: The Ghost of Sarah Palin Still Haunts Alaska 2009
It is news to me that historians have "maligned " the Countess and that the Tolstoys 'marriage has been "labeled one of the worst in history."
The Tolstoys at Home Nikolai Tolstoy 2007
The audacity of such a return in the face of Turenne, who was doubtless in the King of Navarre's suite, almost took my breath away; nevertheless, I saw that it possessed one advantage which no other course promised -- that, I mean, of setting us right in the eyes of the world, and enabling me to meet in a straightforward manner such as maligned us.
A Gentleman of France Stanley John Weyman 1891
Jim DeMint suggested that marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell she not been so "maligned " by the national GOP.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010
That was almost worse than his babbling about the Angels being "maligned ".
Lone Star Ball 2009
That was almost worse than his babbling about the Angels being "maligned ".
Lone Star Ball 2009
McLeod also asserted that the board had "maligned " another complainant for leaking a confidential board report without sufficient evidence.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009
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