maligner

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Lorrimer discovered that the maligner of his city was a Bostonian, and a stormy debate ensued.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

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 Saintsbury, George

Slowly they turned their heads to look at the fence, upon the other side of which stood the maligner of their eyes.

From Gentle Julia by Gilbert, C. Allan

In vain rings the shout of the maligner on the rocks above, as the circle gathers in again closer than ever about us.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

His maligner and only slightly younger contemporary, Horace Walpole, in some of his letters, writes in a fashion which, putting mere slang aside, has hardly any difference from that of to-day.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George