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Example sentences for: maligned

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It astonishes me that Ann Douglas, in "Psycho Dramas," her review of the Sam Tanenhaus biography of Whittaker Chambers, acknowledges that Chambers was right about everything, but still maintains the old liberal condescension for this perennially maligned figure.
It is this very basic misunderstanding that allows you to delve into lawyer-speak arguments as to why MS is just a maligned giant.
TV star George Clooney, long maligned for his "one-trick-pony acting style ...
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").
"Among certain corporate historians, there is an ideology that corporations are unfairly maligned and that they are less powerful than they are made out to be," says Professor Michael Pinto-Duchinsky of England's Brunel University.