One troubling possibility: youths are being maligned to draw attention from the reality that it's actually middle-aged adults — the parents — whose behavior has worsened.
Mr. Starr has been vindicated in the courts in nearly every instance, and he and his allies were maligned to a degree that will someday be seen as grossly unfair.
Some people, such as Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, argue that Iran is too malign to be left with anything but a symbolic ability to enrich uranium.
As people of faith and moral conscience, we promise to defend our Muslim brothers and sisters from attack, to speak up when they are maligned, and to support them with our voices, our actions, and our bodies.
Some species are maligned due to their shocking appearance or by their ferocious reputation in folklore and myth; however, one species, though cute and tiny, threatens bathers in a very, shall we say, way.
Since both the queer and kink communities can be maligned due to their sexuality, Brod said, they end up with different comfort levels discussing sex with partners.
The state is assumed always to be malign, and it's taken for granted that the labour market is not flexible enough (is it ever?).
"The sums involved were massive, and the effects were malign," said the verdict read to Mr. Lei in the courtroom, according to Xinhua, China's state-run news agency.
Having previously suffered cysts, she admits to having danced into the doctor's room not expecting that lump she'd found in her left breast to actually be malign.
She was seemingly straightforward and unpretentious, and has been maligned and condescended to as a result, even suspected of delaying her arrival at Cézanne's deathbed to attend a dress-fitting.
