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Example sentences for: maligned

How can you use “maligned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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").
It is this very basic misunderstanding that allows you to delve into lawyer-speak arguments as to why MS is just a maligned giant.
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.
An article embraces much maligned, gas guzzling sport utility vehicles.
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.