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maligned
[ muh-lahynd ]
adjective
- 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
- the simple past tense and past participle of malign ( def ).
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ··Ա adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of maligned1
Example Sentences
The 23-year-old star has dominated conversation about the film, as people either blame her for its poor reviews or leap to her defence, saying she's being unfairly maligned.
A season that was supposed to mark a new era for the maligned franchise instead ended with familiar disappointment.
Finally Castor canadensis, long maligned as a pest, is getting a rebrand as an ecological hero.
She added that colonialism "was no longer a matter of my own maligned fate but a system of evil whose tentacles reached into every phase of African life".
“How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” is a celebration of a group that was wrongly maligned, but it’s also a bittersweet tribute to brotherhood.
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