1846 W. M. Thackeray vii. 120 If he melts at his daughter's agony, he is a man and a father. There are men and fathers too in the much-maligned orient.
1928 E. Waugh ii. vi. 208 ‘To Fortune,’ he said, ‘a much-maligned lady!’
1994 9 Jan. 1/3 But now four sympathetic authors come mightily to the defense of the much-maligned Generation X.