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“The system is operating in this state of malign neglect and carelessness that has a real impact on people’s financial lives,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

"These scenes have caused disruption for people and, given that people are dressed in black wearing balaclavas, there is a fear factor and obvious malign intent being communicated to our residents," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

In 1979 Americans immediately felt the malign effects of that year’s Islamic revolution, which replaced the autocratic but modernizing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

As if a peculiar and malign abstractness pervaded their mental processes.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

Every hour of study will be interrupted with “Suppose this or this happens;” “Suppose somebody persuades her to break her promise;” worse still, “Suppose some rival maligns me, and so seduces her away.”

From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

For nearly 40 years as an attorney, he used that presence to fight for the maligned like few others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Has a maligned New York athlete enjoyed a renaissance quite like Towns, aka KAT?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 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

Because ye know what I see when a lass is maligned for something she can’t help and yet she still shows up anyway?”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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 50-year-old journalist was living in Kenya to avoid arrest at home on charges of maligning the powerful military.

From Washington Times ● May 25, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

I won’t have you maligning my father, you naughty man!

From The Camerons of Highboro by Beth Bradford Gilchrist