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)

Was my late folly known to this crawling maligner after all?

From The Cavalier by Cable, George Washington

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 Ross, John Wilson

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 Taylor, Richard