Malign Definition

mə-līn
maligned, maligning, maligns
verb
maligned, maligning, maligns
To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about (someone).
American Heritage
To speak evil of; defame; slander; traduce.
Webster's New World

(archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.

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adjective
Showing ill will; malicious.
Webster's New World
Very harmful; malignant.
Webster's New World
Evil; baleful.
A malign influence.
Webster's New World

Malignant.

A malign ulcer.
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Origin of Malign

  • Middle English malignen to attack from Old French malignier from Late Latin malignārī from Latin malignus malign genə- in Indo-European roots Adj., from Middle English from Old French from Latin malignus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Via French from Latin malignus, from malus (bad) + genus (sort, kind). Compare benign.

    From Wiktionary

Malign Sentence Examples

  • If aliens were encountered, they were grotesque and probably malign.

  • There are people who are eaten up by religious mania, swept along by some malign force which they call faith.

  • At Rhodes he met his coadjutor Piso, who was seeking everywhere to thwart and malign him.

  • It should be remembered that what with the known timidity of his colleagues, and what with the strength and violence of the Russian party in England, his achievement at Berlin was like the reclamation of butter from a dog's mouth; as Prince Bismarck understood in acknowledging Disraeli's gifts of statesmanship. It should also be remembered, when his Eastern policy in 1876-1878 is denounced as malign and a failure, that it was never carried out.

  • The influence of Donne upon the literature of England was singularly wide and deep, although almost wholly malign.

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