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speak unfavorably about

He said the Taliban had attacked me not for my campaign for education but because I tried to "malign [their] efforts to establish the Islamic system."
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

My honour is as untouched as that of the bitterest enemy who ever maligned me.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
He was sure they were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.
Ambrose Bierce -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
He never felt angry with his father, because he did not wish to ally himself with his mother, who continually maligned the man.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The flush soon left his face, however, making way for the yellow pallor that usually came to the man's face after a malign attack.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Ignorant, superstitious, worked upon by things as they seemed, the outlaw imagined himself at last beset by malign forces.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
It's full of malign humors."
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
Maraa Isabel feels she is being forced to have her daughter's celebration with women who have maligned her as a bad mother.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
Where, he wonders for the umpteenth time, does using one's talents to bring "glory onto God" end and the much maligned "pridefulness" begin?
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
He said he wanted to give dignity to those dances that Hollywood and the West had maligned.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
A whole malign history burning cold and remote and black.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
I wailed and gnashed my teeth over the fact that I had maligned a fellow student.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
One was inside the flat hung up in the kitchen and the other was-or should be-in the maligned bag.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
Some wicked person has been maligning me to you; but it's all right.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
Willetts, I understand you've maligned me to Bishop Kane and others," began Shefford, curtly.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
I do not hesitate to make the remark, for I am as little disposed to flatter my contemporaries as to malign them.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
Eustacia was now no longer the goddess but the woman to him, a being to fight for, support, help, be maligned for.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
I glared at her—the woman had maligned me—and then I noticed for the first time the swell in her belly and realized she was pregnant again.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
"Thou art right, Sancho," returned Don Quixote; "It will be wise to let the malign influence of the stars which now prevails pass off."
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
But I pressed her, trying to make her see that all of it was a malign trick to take her money.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders

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