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‘Therapeutic measures such as bleeding and purging, designed originally to get rid or excess or malign humours, continued to be used.’
‘But it was no match for the malign tumor, first detected just last spring, his colleagues said.’
‘Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours.’
‘After hours spent quelling the fire with cold water, ‘he succumbed to a fever so malign that in just a few days he expired in the icy embrace of death.’’
verb
[with object]
Speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner.
‘don't you dare malign her in my presence’
‘There was a time at mid-century when maligning the mother took a more generalized form.’
‘Prescott has been much maligned for its substantial increase in heat output.’
‘Tommy went on to pay tribute to the county footballers, saying they are often maligned.’
‘Shame on you, Jim Ross, for maligning a man for making the right decision.’
‘A victory for the champion team Sydney has been much maligned this year.’
‘And yet, never has realism (to use a very broad term) been so maligned.’
‘Second, they'd imply that Chalabi had been unjustly maligned or demonized by opponents with other agendas to pursue.’
‘He did not set out to falsely malign anyone or advance some hidden political agenda.’
‘He was also taken aback because he felt the PR consultant was maligning someone who was dead.’
‘In all the articles maligning students of the past two decades for apathy, the media rarely deign to mention this counterexample.’
‘Now that we have Camilla installed, her champion wrote, should we still be maligning this lady?’
‘Men have been so maligned by our society that they are not taken seriously when they protest.’
‘I shall delight in maligning him at every hand's turn.’
‘The Yankees and Red Sox are often maligned by the other owners for bloated payrolls.’
‘And I thought she was one of the most maligned people in American history.’
‘Event after event causes Philip to wonder whether Rachel is a scheming murderous or grossly maligned woman.’
‘While eggs may have an unhealthy image, the evidence suggests they have been unfairly maligned.’
‘Social services must be the most maligned group of people in today's society.’
‘But he denied the army had been maligning politicians to discredit them.’
‘The bench has been much maligned all season, and not all of the complaints were unwarranted.’
defame, slander, libel, blacken someone's character, blacken someone's name, smear, run a smear campaign against, vilify, speak ill of, spread lies about, accuse falsely, cast aspersions on, run down, misrepresent, calumniate, traduce, denigrate, disparage, slur, derogate, abuse, revile