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Example sentences for: maligned

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The man critics once maligned as a genocidal maniac is living quietly--dying quietly--in the jungles of his native Cambodia.
An article embraces much maligned, gas guzzling sport utility vehicles.
After years of hiding the river behind a bleak expanse of warehouses, factories, and railway tracks, Montréal has opened up its waterfront, more recently with the music festivals and flea market of the Vieux Port, but largely at the earlier instigation of that much maligned Mayor Drapeau.
Most critics are happy to reconsider the maligned "blue period," which is now deemed "Picasso at his most accessible" by the Wall Street Journal 's Deborah Solomon ("you don't need to know the first thing about line or form to be deeply moved by them").
Well, I am sorry you were much maligned by my friends on the Motley Fool, which was one of the first really successful online communities to take off.