Usually means: Unfairly spoken about in negativity.
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  1. maligned: Merriam-Webster
  2. maligned: Collins English Dictionary
  3. maligned: Vocabulary.com
  4. Maligned, maligned: Wordnik
  5. maligned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. maligned: Wiktionary
  7. Maligned, maligned: Dictionary.com
  8. maligned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Maligned: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Maligned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. maligned: Rhymezone
  12. Maligned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. maligned: FreeDictionary.org
  14. maligned: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maligned: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maligned: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Assailed with contemptuous language

Similar:
abused, reviled, misprised, derisible, dishonored, misfavored, disparaging, dishonoured, opprobrious, disgraced, more...

Opposite:
praised, lauded, commended, extolled

Types:
scorned, disfavored, hated, hounded, reviled, despised, more...

Phrases:
much maligned, opposite of maligned, more...

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    black,     gray,     brown,     dark green,     olive, more...



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Similar:
abused, reviled, misprised, derisible, dishonored, misfavored, disparaging, dishonoured, opprobrious, disgraced, more...

Opposite:
praised, lauded, commended, extolled

Types:
scorned, disfavored, hated, hounded, reviled, despised, more...

Phrases:
much maligned, opposite of maligned, more...

Colors:
    black,     gray,     brown,     dark green,     olive, more...



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