So Christianly unselfish, and yet so unjustly maligned! Charles' administration was maligned as being corrupt and misguided. It was maligned by collectors and they claimed it devalued their collections. Politicians and businesspeople maligned and ignored the hip hop movement. "Maniac" was maligned by critics. She empathized with bats, as they are maligned by many cultures. Originally, the film was critically maligned and received poor box office return upon release. Iachimo's invasion of Imogen's bedchamber reflects concern that Britain was being maligned by Italian influence. He followed it in 1982 with the generally critically maligned "Groovy Decay". Foster's biographer Louis Chunovic referred to the film as "much maligned". Pitchfork Media named the album "maligned but salvageable". He was, as the "New York Times" later put it, "much maligned". They maligned then-Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana. After the Civil War, black people were maligned for their association with watermelon. "The Case of the Maligned Mobster" (1991).