Malign

[Ma*lign·]

If you malign someone, you badmouth them just like the jilted girlfriend who tells the whole school her ex has bad breath and head lice.

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Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

Verb
speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere"

Adjective S.
having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"

Adjective
evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"

a.
Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

a.
Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.

a.
Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.

a.
To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.

a.
To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.

v. i.
To entertain malice.

Malign

Ma*lign" , a. [L. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign, Malignant.] 1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.

2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets. 3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] Bacon.

Malign

Ma*lign", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maligned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Maligning.] [Cf. L. malignare. See Malign, a.] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.]

The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.

2. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.

To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.

Malign

Ma*lign", v. i. To entertain malice. [Obs.]

Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure

To entertain malice.

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Usage Examples

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.