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maligned

adjective as in reviled

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They are both the most revered and the most maligned cooks in our culture.

From Salon

And there was Kershaw, after his maligned bullpen danced through danger and barely survived, admitting that maybe this game meant a little more.

"Today the Jewish state is being maligned in a similar way."

From BBC

In 2019 he described the disgraced British doctor Andrew Wakefield as the "most unfairly maligned person in modern history" and told a crowd in Washington that "any just society" would be building statues of him.

From BBC

Romance has been a "maligned genre" within the industry that "some people just didn't want to be associated with," she says.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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