maligned
Example Sentences
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"I became a meme, I was the most maligned HR manager in HR history," Ms Cabot told The Times.
From BBC
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.
Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish—retained critical and popular esteem, but most were ignored by middle-class tastemakers or maligned as conduits of cultural degeneration.
The previously maligned ADP gauge has confirmed the plateauing of payrolls outside the government sector.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.