maligner

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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

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)

Such is Bill Pratt, honest, cheerful, and industrious, the maligner of no man.

From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge

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

Rev. Mr. Sanborn of the Universalist church replied to him the next Sunday evening, an immense audience being in attendance, and completely disproved the baseless allegations of the reverend maligner, to the satisfaction of all.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady