malign

Object

• genre: Frankly, it's been a pretty maligned genre.
• people: But today the Member has maligned the people of Northern Ireland.
• word: It was Riley's call to arms, her challenge to celebrate singleness, to re-establish that much maligned, splendid word, spinster.
• band: A much maligned band who get even more stick than SLF for jumping on the bandwagon.
• one: Then in verse 2 he moves on in his list of seven virtues, " To malign no one.
• man: The shop steward is the most maligned man in industry.

Modifies a noun

• intent: The Government maintain that they have no malign intent, nor any current plans to use their vast array of order-making powers.
• influence: I'm sure his malign influence can be detected in the novel.
• spirit: The calendar also had five unlucky " leap days " known by this name and ruled over by malign spirits.
• force: There are people who are eaten up by religious mania, swept along by some malign force which they call faith.
• effect: In particular he must purge himself from the malign effects of his material body.
• presence: In all its malign presence is felt on eight local councils.

Modifying Another Word

• unfairly: Serra is often unfairly maligned for his work on GE, I think.
• much: Much maligned frontman Tom Chaplin told Q: " The new album will be very personal, to be honest.
• often: The fashion industry is one of the sectors so often maligned because of the manufacturing choices that design houses make.
• so: He says; How can an award have been so maligned, but also so eagerly sought after?
• unjustly: Firstly, Nick, you have unjustly maligned John Muir.
• sometimes: If his influence has been sometimes malign, he can hardly be blamed.