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- verb Present participle of
malign .
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Examples
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The board criticised the media for what it called the maligning of certain board members over the issue of Afrikaans on TV1.
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As we all know, Christ was crucified and was sinless, yet I still find it very hard to believe that people would find sport in maligning this dear lady in death.
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This is not about 'maligning' but, rather, putting things in proper persepective.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
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His board stripped about 20 Santas of their membership for offenses such as maligning fellow Santas on Elf Net, a Web chat group run by the Amalgamated Santas.
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The charge against Mr. Chalabi, he said, would be "maligning" him and his ministry.
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But I’m also sick of this complete acceptance of it being OK to use a word maligning gays in everyday speech.
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She is calling on that unnamed congressman to identify himself and apologize to his colleagues for "maligning" them ....
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Where do you get off maligning people who hold criticism over the Ares approach as being opposed to human spaceflight beyond LEO?
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
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Over the years though, it's been subject to much maligning from the show's creators and musical theater aficionados, with Midler bearing the brunt of the criticism.
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Over the years though, it's been subject to much maligning from the show's creators and musical theater aficionados, with Midler bearing the brunt of the criticism.
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