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maligning
adjective as in abusive
adjective as in defamatory
adjective as in derogatory
adjective as in invidious
adjective as in libelous
adjective as in opprobrious
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- abasing
- calumniatory
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- damaging
- debasing
- defamatory
- defaming
- denigrating
- depreciative
- derogative
- despicable
- despiteful
- detractive
- disgracing
- dishonoring
- disparaging
- humiliating
- hurting
- injuring
- injurious
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- libeling
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- notorious
- offending
- offensive
- pejorative
- reproaching
- reviling
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- shaming
- spiteful
- truculent
- vile
- vitriolic
- vituperative
- vulgar
adjective as in scandalous
adjective as in slanderous
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adjective as in slighting
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adjective as in vituperative
noun as in detraction
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Example Sentences
"One aspect that made it more difficult to be sure, to try to help confirm those suspicions, was a very strong argument being put forward from the senior nurse on the unit that this suspicion was totally wrong and that we were maligning nurse Letby and she was a very competent safe nurse," he said.
"The danger here is that, by scapegoating, maligning and essentially holding up a vision of America that is in stark contrast to the realities of a country that is becoming populated by more people of color, political violence will be normalized as results in a way that we haven't seen in a generation or two," Muhammad said.
Allen smeared election officials as lacking “clean hands,” maligning them for the crime of following the law as written.
Netlfix’s docu-sensation focused much of its attention on maligning Carole Baskin.
CompassCare has responded by furiously maligning Kamke in public, an unusual way to treat a former patient.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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