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. 

Lorrimer discovered that the maligner of his city was a Bostonian, and a stormy debate ensued.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

But all the assertions of this paid maligner sink into insignificance compared with what follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

She had been called by every foul name which applied to the spy and the maligner; she could not bear it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evil Guest] Reference

So now in the interests of family unity, the very mother who was maligned wants me to apologize for barking at her maligner.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Anne Johnson Day] Reference

Shields flew to the editor to demand the name of the maligner, as he called the correspondent, or the editor must meet him with dueling weapon -- or his horsewhip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

Submitting to the inevitable, they have shown fortitude and dignity, and rarely has one been found base enough to take wages of shame from the oppressor and maligner of his brethren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

Was my late folly known to this crawling maligner after all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalier] Reference

Shirley Sherrod's maligner Andrew Breitbart comes out of hiding to snarl before vacation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Examiner California Headlines] Reference

For why may not I come in as a sharer, instead of being a maligner of his joy and felicity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.] Reference

Dyer, a crafty fellow, and his ancient maligner, and then made one of his conciliatory addresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

Slowly they turned their heads to look at the fence, upon the other side of which stood the maligner of their eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gentle Julia] Reference

In vain rings the shout of the maligner on the rocks above, as the circle gathers in again closer than ever about us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

Lord Oxford, -- if indeed the former has not maligned the latter, and ill-tempered Tom Nash maligned the maligner in his turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference

Neither did I thinke any so malitious as now I see a great many; yet it shal not so passionate me, but I will doe my best for my most maligner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England] Reference

Sunday evening, an immense audience being in attendance, and completely disproved the baseless allegations of the reverend maligner, to the satisfaction of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference

While I feel remorse for your obvious profound lack of self esteem ... given that you are a die-hard maligner of Democratic Process ... and Traditional American Values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference

The face of the dead man, now gleaming ghastly in the light, and now extinguished by some floating shadow, appeared at each emergence to have taken on a new and more forbidding expression, a maligner menace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales] Reference

Standing alone amidst a host of powerful enemies, shall I be stricken down by a cowardly maligner, and never turn to strike one blow for my good name, my mother's honour, my father's memory, and my own standing in society?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference

Before Harold could reply, and listen to the first impulse of a valour, which his worst Norman maligner, in the after day of triumphant calumny, never so lied as to impugn, the thegns themselves almost with one voice, took up the reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

A creeping spy, a fool, a coward -- a maligner of women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference

A crafty fellow, and his ancient maligner, and then made one of his conciliatory addresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain John Smith] Reference

Shields flew to the editor to demand the name of the maligner, as he called the correspondent, or the editor must meet him with dueling weapon ” or his horsewhip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book]

Be thou well behaved that a maligner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference

Mervyn's foe and maligner!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

For this maligner of the general good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid English] Reference

He was a vile old maligner of human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet] Reference

For this maligner of the general good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

1789) to a maligner of Catholics: "Their blood flowed as freely (in proportion to their numbers) to cement the fabric of independence as that of any of their fellow-citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Or whether, by maligner fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference

He was a vile old maligner of human nature. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet, Volume I] Reference