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Example sentences for: maligned

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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.
TV star George Clooney, long maligned for his "one-trick-pony acting style ...
The man critics once maligned as a genocidal maniac is living quietly--dying quietly--in the jungles of his native Cambodia.
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.
The much-maligned budget deal of 1990, fashioned by President Bush and Congress, helped a lot, as did the equally maligned 1993 deal constructed by President Clinton.