Hats off to the parents who refused to allow their kids to be filmed for this soulless program, or to allow the cameras into the REAL real Orange County at Laguna Beach High School.
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Synonyms: malign, defame, traduce, vilify, slander, calumniate, libel. These verbs mean to make evil, harmful, often untrue statements about another. Malign stresses malicious intent: Have I not taken your part when you were maligned? (William Makepeace Thackeray).