malign
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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
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
"We need stronger powers to tackle the malign threat posted by states like Iran," he said, vowing to fast-track legislation.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Schumer in his statement, noted that “Iran’s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity.”
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
Can it be that there is a malign influence of the sun at periods which affects certain natures—as at times the moon does others?
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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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
Our action needed not be grac'd by him: Hee's our old enemie and still maligns us.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Striker Youssef Chermiti has improved, along with other previously maligned figures such as Emmanuel Fernandez and Nasser Djiga.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Others think the floods were far worse than any recent precedent, and that the Eastlands have been unfairly maligned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
McKellen has made dozens of films since, from superhero blockbusters to character-driven indies like “Six Degrees of Separation” and musicals such as “Beauty and the Beast” and even the maligned “Cats.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Once maligned for taking on debt to fuel costly media acquisitions, AT&T has since sold off those units and refocused on core telecommunications activities.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 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
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Sheinbaum regularly bemoans what she views as “fake news” maligning her leadership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
CompassCare has responded by furiously maligning Kamke in public, an unusual way to treat a former patient.
From Slate ● May 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 executive director of Central Arkansas Library System, Nate Coulter, said the judge’s 49-page decision recognized the law as censorship, a violation of the Constitution and wrongly maligning librarians.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
Any one who maintains that there actually and consciously prevails such a basely materialistic meaning of "practical" is but a poor cynic maligning the world which tolerates him.
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
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