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maligning
adjective as in abusive
adjective as in defamatory
adjective as in derogatory
adjective as in invidious
adjective as in libelous
adjective as in opprobrious
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- abasing
- calumniatory
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- damaging
- debasing
- defamatory
- defaming
- denigrating
- depreciative
- derogative
- despicable
- despiteful
- detractive
- disgracing
- dishonoring
- disparaging
- humiliating
- hurting
- injuring
- injurious
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- libeling
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- notorious
- offending
- offensive
- pejorative
- reproaching
- reviling
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- shaming
- spiteful
- truculent
- vile
- vitriolic
- vituperative
- vulgar
adjective as in scandalous
adjective as in slanderous
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adjective as in slighting
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adjective as in vituperative
noun as in detraction
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Example Sentences
A Tea Party rally outside the Capitol Thursday captured the defiant mood with the far right maligning the merely right.
I had no intention of maligning the gentleman, and the evident astonishment my question causes you is very reassuring.
Whether I shall proceed in law against these scoundrels for maligning me, I have not determined.
Why, the Dunces had been maligning him all their days, long before the treatise on the Profund.
Writers uniformly take a wicked pleasure in maligning the Basque language.
It was manifest that she had been maligning Rachel, and instigating his mother to take up the cudgels against her.
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On this page you'll find 329 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to maligning, such as: insulting, offensive, rude, calumniating, castigating, and censorious.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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