maligner
Example Sentences
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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 C. Allan Gilbert
Somewhere or other there must have been a great deal of maligning; nor is it difficult to discover who the maligner was as far as the characters in the Annals are concerned.
From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross
Submitting to the inevitable, they have shown fortitude and dignity, and rarely has one been found base enough to take wages of shame from the oppressor and maligner of his brethren.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
But all the assertions of this paid maligner sink into insignificance compared with what follows.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various
Was my late folly known to this crawling maligner after all?
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable