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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



... himself as the dying gladiator, and even compares him to his peacock, screeching before his window because he chooses to bivouack apart from his mate; but he read a copy of the Ravenna diary without altering his view that his lordship was his own worst maligner. Scott, says Lockhart, considered Byron the only poet of transcendent talents we had had since Dryden. There is preserved a curious record of his meeting with a greater poet than Dryden, but one whose greatness neither he nor Scott suspected. Mr. Crabb Robinson reports Wordsworth to ...
— Byron • John Nichol

... character, to find him zealous in defence of the reputation of a great man, even although that man had been dead more than half a century; but it may be added that his just zeal was at least stimulated by the fact that the maligner of Goethe was Owen, the conduct of whom, with regard to Darwin and Huxley, Huxley had had just reason ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell



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