I think we have been unnecessarily maligned with a desire or a wish or intent on our part to try to defraud anybody. We haven't.
Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
In the Dred Scott decision, the Declaration of Independence:
No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.
… the most hated and calumniated man of his times.
I am one of the most attacked persons.
I've been called a lot of things.