maligner

Example Sentences

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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

She proves her innocence by going before the king and swearing that her maligner has stolen one of her golden slippers.

From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill

The author of the Suite de Merlin seems to have been her first maligner.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

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 Gilbert, C. Allan