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maligned

adjective as in reviled

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Introducing the maligned bill was a condition of ACT joining the coalition led by the center-right National Party and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.

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“Martha” doesn’t gloss over Stewart’s prickly, demanding personality, but it also makes the case that she was unfairly maligned — and ultimately prosecuted — because of her gender.

Kasaine wrote in her May 27 letter that she has been “maligned, harassed, bullied, and sidelined from my core responsibilities.”

Trump famously maligned John McCain for being taken as a prisoner of war in the Vietnam War.

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Some see Crowther as an unfairly maligned man of his time, and his effigy as an important part of the state’s history, warts and all.

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