View example sentences and word forms for Maligned.

Maligned

Maligned | Malign | Maligning | Maligns

Maligned meaning

Assailed with contemptuous language

Example sentences (20)

A relief because while the much-maligned Glazer family still have a majority shareholding in Manchester United, sporting control has been handed over to Ratcliffe and INEOS.

But Canada, the most maligned man in Pittsburgh, will probably somehow still get blamed despite actually calling a pretty good game.

Even the arrival of Prince Harry, a now much-maligned figure for his choice to publicly criticise his family, was completely ignored.

Free trade has become a maligned concept.

His relationships with professional colleagues are maligned by a similar lack of trust.

If Aberdeen, Celtic, Hearts, Hibs and Rangers can match their giant-killing feats in Europe it will bring in much-needed funds, enhance the reputation of the much-maligned Scottish game and increase the feelgood factor around the sport here hugely.

Much maligned and undervalued over the centuries, temperate peatlands have seen a lot damage in that time — drained for agriculture, planted with trees, mined for horticulture and fuel.

Much maligned for not really getting into the game in the playoffs, in this series Matthews has had four goals, a fight, and tonight, a serious bodycheck.

Reflecting on the scene four years later, Cotillard expressed disappointment that Nolan chose the maligned take for her death scene in the final cut.

Rose also portrays Longacre’s frustration at being maligned due to her ‘condition’ (aka pregnancy) beautifully.

The ideas of Leon Trotsky, and Trotskyism, have been much maligned and distorted through history.

The much-maligned Ultimate Team (FUT) mode returns too, but long-term fans of the franchise would be eager to see what's fresh in the stagnating and often neglected Career Mode.

There has been so much creative, subversive content made by Millennials over the past two decades, however we are largely remembered for spearheading much maligned modes of communicating: such as punctuating tweets with “This.”, “That’s it.

The television interview did not name Mr Lehrmann but he claims being defamed because several details identified him as the perpetrator and, in turn, "publicly maligned" him as "certainly the most prominent rapist".

Thus, neither of the first two films starring Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox are on this list, but the oft-maligned third film is here.

Addison’s much maligned offensive line came to play tonight as they opened huge holes in the Indian defense.

A film that was loved by audiences and maligned by critics, Law Abiding Citizen has endured for 15 years despite shaky ethics.

And in the end, fittingly, it was won with the tying touchdown set up by a 50-yard pass to the much-maligned Tutu Atwell, and the winning kick set up by a 38-yard punt return from a guy just called up from the practice squad named Xavier Smith.

As with most unfairly maligned movies, it turns out that "Howard the Duck" was more ahead of its time than hopelessly flawed.

Britain's main Labour opposition on Thursday vowed to renationalise the UK's much-maligned rail services within five years if it wins a general election due later this year.