Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who maligns or speaks malignantly of another; a traducer; a defamer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who maligns.
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- noun Someone who
maligns
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel
Etymologies
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Examples
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But it's really my maligner who's a bit creepy and laughable for carrying on as if he's more fair-minded than due process advocates who see right through him.
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But it's really my maligner who's a bit creepy and laughable for carrying on as if he's more fair-minded than due process advocates who see right through him.
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But it's really my maligner who's a bit creepy and laughable for carrying on as if he's more fair-minded than due process advocates who see right through him.
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Unlike what went down on your moody My December (that now deserves a revisit and a personal apology from each maligner), your energy level is spiking again, and you prove Simon Cowell correct when he once stated on Good Morning America that your pipes were better than your fellow Idolsters "by a mile" (okay, that was years ago, but still ...).
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted / Gin Blossoms Playlist Your Way 2009
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So now in the interests of family unity, the very mother who was maligned wants me to apologize for barking at her maligner.
International Anne Johnson Day Anne Johnson 2008
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And I ` ve been called -- since Imus, I ` ve been called the chief maligner -- I think it ` s the chief maligner of Mohammed and Islam.
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She had been called by every foul name which applied to the spy and the maligner; she could not bear it.
The Evil Guest 2003
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Shields flew to the editor to demand the name of the maligner, as he called the correspondent, or the editor must meet him with dueling weapon -- or his horsewhip.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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Lorrimer discovered that the maligner of his city was a Bostonian, and a stormy debate ensued.
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Although this portion of the romance is only a distant analogue of out story, inasmuch as it lacks both the wager and the clever trick of the wife to get her maligner to convict himself, I give it, because this same combination of the "chastity-wager" motive with the
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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