malign
Example Sentences
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Few parts of American corporations today are more important—and more maligned—than human-resource management.
The operation elevated the global standing of the SBU, long maligned as a corrupt successor of the Soviet KGB shot through with traitors.
The strategy usefully highlights the importance of removing malign interests from the hemisphere—albeit without mentioning Russia or China or Cuba as those influences.
"The malicious and malign intent is really sinister," the officer said.
From BBC
Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish—retained critical and popular esteem, but most were ignored by middle-class tastemakers or maligned as conduits of cultural degeneration.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
