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Maligner

noun
1.
One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.  Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier.






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"Maligner" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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, ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... friendship; and to excuse himself from the maligner's calumnies, he sends to your Abbot that Henry Warden, whose sermons have turned the world upside down, to be dealt with as Holy Church directs, and as the ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

... resolved to go. Her own room had been invaded, that insult and reproach might be heaped upon her; how utterly unmerited Mrs. Marston knew. She had been called by every foul name which applied to the spy and the maligner; she could not bear it. Some one had evidently been endeavoring to procure her removal, and had but too effectually succeeded. Mademoiselle was determined to go early the next morning; nothing should prevent or retard her departure; her ...
— The Evil Guest • J. Sheridan Le Fanu



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