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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.
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.
An update of the fairy tale, with Drew Barrymore as the maligned princess and Anjelica Huston as the social-climbing stepmother.
"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.
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.