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maligned
/məˈlaɪnd/
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What does maligned mean?
adjective
- Assailed with contemptuous language
verb
- simple past and past participle of malign
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IPA pronunciation
/məˈlaɪnd/
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To see an owl, foretells that you will be secretly maligned and be in danger from enemies.
Eustacia was now no longer the goddess but the woman to him, a being to fight for, support, help, be maligned for.
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These ministers desert our poor and maligned Christ, involve themselves in the affairs of the world, seek advantages for themselves and not for Christ.
Lydgate was not at all sure that the Vicar maligned himself.
He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one.