malign

Speech parts

1. malign - Adjective

2. malign - Verb

3. malign - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

evil malevolent traduce badmouth malefic drag through the mud sully attack pan slam malice sledge negative dark abuse
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Antonyms

benign beneficent good adore kind celebrate
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Hypernyms

sully slander smear denigrate defame besmirch

Phrases with the word

malign spirits

Derivatives

maligned maligning

Anagrams

laming lingam Gilman Maling

Examples

But 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

Close letter words and terms

Malicoat malidzano maliferous malign spirits malignance malignancy