maligner
Example Sentences
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Was my late folly known to this crawling maligner after all?
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
The author of the Suite de Merlin seems to have been her first maligner.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
Submitting to the inevitable, they have shown fortitude and dignity, and rarely has one been found base enough to take wages of shame from the oppressor and maligner of his brethren.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
Such is Bill Pratt, honest, cheerful, and industrious, the maligner of no man.
From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Edwin Partridge Lehman
Somewhere or other there must have been a great deal of maligning; nor is it difficult to discover who the maligner was as far as the characters in the Annals are concerned.
From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross
