Example sentences for: much-maligned

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

  • I recently acquired a wonderful videotape of ballet with Suzanne Farrell and Baryshnikov (produced, incidentally, with support from the much-maligned National Endowment for the Arts).

  • The New Yorker has sent its writers on freebie cruises before, and not under much-maligned editor Tina Brown.

  • By the same token, Jack Maggs ' triumphal march burnishes the literary moment to which its author lays proud claim, restoring the 19 th -century English novel, that much-maligned instrument of colonial oppression, to a well-deserved place in the sun.

  • The piece praises much-maligned Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter for his impartiality, but admits his office is too soft on punishing criminals.

  • 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.


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