1. malign - Adjective
2. malign - Verb
3. malign - Adjective Satellite
Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.
To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
To entertain malice.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBut the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. Joseph Rotblat
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot
If the media would not have worked to malign Modi, who would know Modi today? Narendra Modi
Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted. Stefan Zweig
Never malign a friend. Latin Proverb