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To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist.

From Time Magazine Archive

This section at first was baffled by the contention of the neutrality party that the Government was maligning the Germans; but they were soon disillusioned.

From Native Life in South Africa by Plaatje, Sol (Solomon Tshekisho)

“No,” he said, “it was childish;” and he felt directly after that he was maligning a really amiable woman.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville