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Yet that’s also how Malone feels about the current climate of Hollywood — a once-stable neighborhood fending off malign forces.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

"We need stronger powers to tackle the malign threat posted by states like Iran," he said, vowing to fast-track legislation.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

After the patrols got under way, there weren’t any suspected malign incidents for about a year, Abrahamson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Schumer in his statement, noted that “Iran’s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity.”

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

“I see. Now I am being compared to a degenerate old female fraud. Worse, I am losing in the comparison. My own mother daring to malign me so.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Much like the recent reclaiming of the bimbo as empowering and gossip as an act of feminist resistance, her L.A. hot girl TikToks remove guilt from the pleasure of feminine hobbies that patriarchy maligns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

If a media organization knowingly and falsely maligns a public figure, the fact that it reported nice and true things elsewhere is no defense.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

But the movement has been getting pushback from some Hindu Americans who argue that such legislation maligns a specific community.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

The girls' family has also questioned the police's version, saying it maligns their daughters.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2022

Yet—once he lent his eloquence and wit To aid the man he now maligns.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 by Various

The author likens Grietje to the women of Salem and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, describing her as one of early America’s “unfairly and heinously maligned women.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Oral estrogens have been unfairly maligned, while transdermal patches have been deemed a safer option.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

McKellen has made dozens of films since, from superhero blockbusters to character-driven indies like “Six Degrees of Separation” and musicals such as “Beauty and the Beast” and even the maligned “Cats.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Richly talented but much maligned, England captain Harry Brook finally achieved redemption at Pallekele stadium in Kandy after a torrid few months -- and came of age as a leader.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Foremost among them is the unfairly maligned passive voice: Laius was killed by Oedipus, as opposed to Oedipus killed Laius.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

I am in no way maligning Tracey’s question, though.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2024

Schultz and Gershman expect that, should Carroll proceed with another complaint and trial, Trump will receive much steeper punitive damages than previously adjudged as the court attempts to further deter him from maligning her.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2024

The executive director of Central Arkansas Library System, Nate Coulter, said the judge’s 49-page decision recognized the law as censorship, a violation of the Constitution and wrongly maligning librarians.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

“I don’t think she’s maligning ‘Deal or No Deal.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

And she would sooner suspect you of maligning her, hating her, or insulting her, than of laughing at her.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope