Verb (used with object) : to malign an honorable man.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : The gloomy house had a malign influence upon her usually good mood.    From Dictionary.com. 

"One feels for one's friends when maligned, that is all," said Vaura, carelessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

It is news to me that historians have "maligned" the Countess and that the Tolstoys 'marriage has been "labeled one of the worst in history.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tolstoys at Home] Reference

That was almost worse than his babbling about the Angels being "maligned".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lone Star Ball] Reference

Jim DeMint suggested that marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell she not been so "maligned" by the national GOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

McLeod also asserted that the board had "maligned" another complainant for leaking a confidential board report without sufficient evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Give some credit to the much-maligned Roger Smith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Smith's Revenge] Reference

His hope: to make her look more manipulative than maligned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trial You Won't See] Reference

It's not to feel a twinge of empathy for the maligned fans of this team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step Right Up] Reference

Let's hope someone breathes some life back into this much-maligned genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Movie Guide] Reference

It is only in the ivory tower where these pursuits are maligned as incompatible.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

The resulting 1990 budget agreement, though much maligned, actually made a difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not So Bad A President] Reference

New Jersey + Much maligned state could be first to win NBA and NHL titles in same year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conventional Wisdom] Reference

To stretch their battered food dollars, Americans are turning to a much-maligned staple: Spam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spam Options] Reference

Even the much-maligned tactic of "triangulation" was an effort to rise above the partisan clatter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight of the Baby Boom] Reference

One can understand why he felt betrayed and maligned, why his sense of self-worth may have been compromised.    From Wordnik.com.  ['An Interior Pain That Is All But Indescribable'] Reference

I thought of it as a way to give the public a view into this world that is often maligned and misrepresented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A: No Butts About It] Reference

In the Americas and Europe in the 1990s, the "middle way" was reincarnated as the now much-maligned Third Way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right? Left? Center!] Reference

The much-maligned U.S. economy has become the industrial world's bright spot, but it cannot prosper on its own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking For A Locomotive] Reference

After many years of on-the-spot observation, I would like to put in a good word for this much-maligned species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guests Welcome] Reference

If low-level functionaries of that much-maligned institution knew this to be the case, why didn't our president?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Varia: Electing Mr. Personality] Reference

I've been maligned by people who have chosen not to tell the truth, and who know that they are not telling the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lewinsky Vs. Clinton] Reference

Though he despises doing media interviews, Prince felt his company had been so maligned he was compelled to speak out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Behind Blackwater] Reference

Indeed, the souvenir trade -- often maligned for promoting kitsch -- can almost singlehandedly keep fading cultures alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damage Control] Reference

After leading the Youth League, Li Keqiang served as head of China's most populated and socially maligned province, Henan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing Battle] Reference

That's mostly thanks to reforms undertaken by its past few presidents — and, remarkably, by the much-maligned Roh himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road of No Return] Reference

Today the human hunger for beauty is satisfied by the much maligned fashion magazines, which are glorious art for the masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eyes Of The Beholders] Reference

(And don't look now, but even the much-maligned men's basketball team seems to be ... nope, never mind, they just lost again.).    From Wordnik.com.  [GOLD RUSH] Reference

Cindy has admitted that she has what she calls a "grudge list" of people she believes have maligned her husband or her family.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of Cindy McCain] Reference

The reaction was immediate, and in most cases we were maligned, and our position was mischaracterized and deeply misunderstood.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADL's Ground Zero Mosque Opposition Prompts Pushback] Reference

Scientists have scrambled for years to invent a healthier version of the much-maligned breakfast food-and now, the race is over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betting On A Guilt-Free Egg] Reference

Through the much-maligned keyboard technique of “facilitated communication,” they help DJ make his first forays into language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Is Where The Heart Is] Reference

It might even be that our much-maligned government actually succeeds once in a while (note the lower pollution and greater auto safety).    From Wordnik.com.  [Here's Some Good News, America] Reference

High-tech weapons, maligned in the past for their stratospheric cost and earthbound fallibility, suddenly seemed to work almost flawlessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Kind Of Warfare] Reference

The general who heads up the U.N. - African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur came to London last week to talk up his much-maligned force, now almost a year old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission: Impossible] Reference