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Adjective maligned has 1 sense
  1. maligned, reviled - assailed with contemptuous language
    Antonym: unabused (indirect, via abused)
,Verb malign has 1 sense
  1. badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud - speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere"
    --1 is one way to defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
    Derived forms: noun malignment1, noun maligner1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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