Maligned

Definition: Maligned

Maligned

Adjective

1. Assailed with contemptuous language.

Date "maligned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Maligned

Synonym: reviled (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Maligned

Specialty definitions using "maligned": Owl ♦ Umbrella ♦ Veil. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Today, a belated apology to the much maligned chicken little. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)
Movie/TV Titles	Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster (1991)
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Domain	Title
Books	Black Face Maligned Race: The Representation of Blacks in English Drama from Shakespeare to Southerne (reference) Maligned Master: The Real Story of Antonio Salieri (reference) Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (reference) Ralph Darling: A Governor Maligned (reference) The Maligned States: Policy Accomplishments, Problems and Opportunities (reference) (more book examples)
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"Maligned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 46.43% of the time. "Maligned" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	46.43%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (past participle)	42.86%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (past tense)	10.71%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	28	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "maligned": much-maligned.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "maligned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		诬�"� (malign, Maligning, Pejorative). (various references)

German		schlechtgemacht. (various references)

Pig Latin		alignedmay.(various references)

Romanian		bârfit (calumniated, slandered). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	diffamatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Maligned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Madigbe, Maelienydd, malgnet, Malienne, maligna, malignat, malignes, maline, malined, Melgund, Mollinedo. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "maligned" (pronounced mulī"nd)
5	-u l ī" n d	aligned, realigned.
4	-l ī" n d	blind, declined, disinclined, inclined, lined, unlined.
3	-ī" n d	assigned, behind, bind, combined, confined, consigned, defined, designed, dined, enshrined, entwined, find, fined, grind, hind, intertwined, kind, mankind, mind, mined, opined, reassigned, redefined, redesigned, refined, remind, resigned, rind, shined, signed, twined, unconfined, undefined, undermined, unkind, unrefined, unsigned, unwind, wind, wined.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: medaling.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-l-m-n"
	-1 letter: aligned, dealing, geminal, leading, mangled, melding, mingled.
	-2 letters: aidmen, alined, angled, daimen, dangle, degami, denial, dingle, engild, enigma, gained, gamine, genial, glimed, imaged, lading, lagend, laming, legman, ligand, limned, linage, lingam, maiden, mailed, malign, maline, mangel, mangle, medial, median, medina, menial, midleg, milage, milden, mingle, nailed.
	-3 letters: admen, agile, ailed, aimed, algid, algin, alien, align, aline, amend, amide, amine, angel, angle, anile, anime, deign, denim, dinge, elain, eland, email, gamed, gamin, gelid, gimel, glade, gland, gleam, glean, glide, glime, ideal, image, ingle, laden, lamed, leman, liane, liang, ligan, liman, limed, limen, lined, linga, maile, maned, mange, medal, media, menad, midge, minae, mined, naled, named, nidal.
	-4 letters: aged, agin, aide, alme, amen, amid, amie, amin, anil, dale, dame, damn, dang, deal, dean, deil, deli, deni, dial, diel, dime, dine, ding, egad, egal, elan, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gale, game, gane, geld, gied, gien, gild, glad, gled, glen, glia, glim, idea, idem, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lain, lame, land, lane, lang, lead, lean, lend, lied, lien, lima, lime, limn, line, ling, made, mage, magi, maid, mail, main, male, mane, mead, meal, mean, meld, mend, mien, mild, mile, mina, mind, mine, nail, name, nema, nide.
	-5 letters: age, aid, ail, aim, ain, ale, ami, and, ane, ani, dag, dal, dam, del, den, die, dig, dim, din, eld, elm, end, eng, gad, gae, gal, gam, gan, ged, gel, gem, gen, gid, gie, gin, lad, lag, lam, lea, led, leg, lei, lid, lie, lin, mad, mae, mag, man, med, meg, mel, men, mid, mig, mil, nae, nag, nam, nil, nim.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-l-m-n"
	+1 letter: medalling.
	+2 letters: declaiming, impleading, malingered, misaligned, misdealing, misleading.
	+3 letters: demandingly, greenmailed, legerdemain, maddeningly, maledicting, mispleading.
	+4 letters: decimalizing, delaminating, demodulating, demoralizing, descrambling, legerdemains, marginalized, misleadingly, unglamorized.
	+5 letters: deformalizing, deglamorizing, demonological, demyelinating, disassembling, semilegendary, unmitigatedly.
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