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    ma·lign
    [məˈlīn]
    verb
    maligned (past tense) · maligned (past participle)
    1. speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner:
      "don't you dare malign her in my presence"
    Origin
    Middle English: via Old French maligne (adjective), malignier (verb), based on Latin malignus ‘tending to evil’, from malus ‘bad’.
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    verb
    1. speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner:
      defame
      slander
      libel
      smear
      vilify
      speak ill of
      run down
      misrepresent
      calumniate
      traduce
      denigrate
      disparage
      slur
      derogate
      abuse
      revile
      bad-mouth
      knock
      rubbish
      slag off
      asperse
      vilipend
      blacken someone's name/character
      run a smear campaign against
      spread lies about
      accuse falsely
      cast aspersions on
      drag through the mud/mire
      throw/sling/fling mud at
      do a hatchet job on
      Opposite:
      praise
     
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    What does maligned mean?
    Blossom Word Game Pick the best words! Are you naughty or nice? Quiz He's making a quiz, and checking it twice... The meaning of MALIGNED is spoken about in an injurious way : harshly or unfairly criticized. How to use maligned in a sentence.

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    What is the past tense of malign?
    the simple past tense and past participle of malign ( def ). Often maligned for a lack of consistency, Pope has shown why England rate his contribution as a team man so highly. Introducing the maligned bill was a condition of ACT joining the coalition led by the center-right National Party and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.

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    Where did the word maligned come from?
    The earliest known use of the adjective maligned is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for maligned is from 1613, in the writing of Thomas Adams, Church of England clergyman. maligned is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: malign v., ‑ed suffix1.

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    What are some examples of a maligned relationship?
    • Schools have been maligned by politicians and newspapers. • They had gotten along well together until his parents came into the vicinity and began to malign his wife. • He had allowed himself to be maligned in the press to protect the political people. • I wish to malign no one.

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    Is the poor man maligned?
    There is no evidence to suggest malign intervention. She is often maligned as a political performer. The poor man has often been maligned. Some of us think that this is a reflection of a collective and often malign judicial conceit.

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    What does it mean if a word has a Mal- in it?
    Did you know? When a word's got mal- in it, it's no good. That prefix traces to the Latin word malus (which means "bad"), and it puts the negative vibes in both the verb and adjective forms of malign (from the Latin malignus, meaning "evil in nature") and a host of other English words.

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