About The Word Malign
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Malign
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What's The Definition Of Malign?
[adj] having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
[adj] 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" [v] speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere" Synonyms | Synonyms for Malign: badmouth | cancerous | drag through the mud | evil | harmful | injurious | malefic | maleficent | malevolent | malignant | traduce Related Terms | Find terms related to Malign: antagonistic | antipathetic | asperse | atrocious | backbite | bad-mouth | baleful | baneful | barbaric | barbarous | befoul | besmirch | bespatter | bestial | bitchy | blacken | bloody | blow upon | brutal | brutish | calumniate | cast aspersions on | cast reflections on | catching | communicable | contagious | corroding | corrosive | corrupting | corruptive | counterproductive | cussed | damaging | deadly | death-bringing | deathful | deathly | decry | defame | defile | deleterious | denigrate | depreciate | derogate | despiteful | destructive | detract | detrimental | disadvantageous | disparage | disserviceable | distressing | envenomed | evil | fatal | feral | ferine | ferocious | fierce | harmful | hateful | hostile | hurtful | infectious | infective | inhuman | inimical | iniquitous | injurious | internecine | invidious | kill-crazy | killing | lethal | libel | malefic | maleficent | malevolent | malicious | malignant | mean | mephitic | merciless | miasmal | miasmatic | miasmic | mischievous | mortal | murderous | nasty | noisome | noncivilized | noxious | ominous | ornery | pernicious | pestiferous | pestilential | pitiless | poisonous | pollute | prejudicial | rancorous | revile | ruthless | sanguinary | savage | scandal | scandalize | scatheful | slander | slur | smear | smirch | soil | spatter | spiteful | stain | sully | taint | tameless | tarnish | tear down | toxic | toxicant | toxiferous | traduce | uncivilized | ungentle | untamed | venenate | veneniferous | venenous | venomous | vicious | vilify | virulent | vituperate | wicked | wild See Also | asperse | besmirch | calumniate | defame | denigrate | malicious | slander | smear | smirch | sully | unkind Malign In Webster's Dictionary \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.
--Bacon.
2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure;
as, a malign aspect of planets.
3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] --Bacon.
\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. --Spenser. 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. --South. \Ma*lign"\, v. i. To entertain malice. [Obs.] |
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