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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.
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.
The man critics once maligned as a genocidal maniac is living quietly--dying quietly--in the jungles of his native Cambodia.
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").
TV star George Clooney, long maligned for his "one-trick-pony acting style ...