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maligned


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Malign  \Ma*lign"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Maligned};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Maligning}.]  [Cf.  L.  malignare  See  {Malign},  a.] 
  To  treat  with  malice;  to  show  hatred  toward;  to  abuse;  to 
  wrong  to  injure.  [Obs.] 
 
  The  people  practice  what  mischiefs  and  villainies  they 
  will  against  private  men,  whom  they  malign  by  stealing 
  their  goods,  or  murdering  them  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  To  speak  great  evil  of  to  traduce;  to  defame;  to  slander; 
  to  vilify;  to  asperse. 
 
  To  be  envied  and  shot  at  to  be  maligned  standing, 
  and  to  be  despised  falling.  --South. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  maligned 
  adj  :  assailed  with  contemptuous  language  [syn:  {reviled}] 




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