Malign
[mə'laɪn]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Stu
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Malicious, malevolent, malignant, ill-disposed.[2]. Injurious, pernicious, unfavorable, baneful, very bad.
v. a. Revile, slander, abuse, calumniate, asperse, defame, blacken, traduce, scandalize, disparage, vilify.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TRADUCE]
Typist: Toni
Definition
adj. of an evil disposition towards others: malicious: unfavourable.—v.t. to speak evil of: (obs.) to treat with malice.—ns. Malign′er; Malig′nity state or quality of being malign: great hatred virulence: deadly quality.—adv. Malign′ly.—n. Malign′ment.
Editor: Maggie
Examples
- The invisible government is malign. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That there was, indeed, some malign divinity in that hideous carcass! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- All day Tarzan followed Kulonga, hovering above him in the trees like some malign spirit. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Suddenly beyond her I saw the beautiful face of Phaidor contorted into an expression of malign hatred. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- At the head of this assembly was a ponderous, dark-looking man, whose malign eye surveyed with gloating delight the stern looks of his followers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I don't wish to have this regarded as necessarily malign. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Never did I witness such a malign lust for blood as these demons of the outer air evinced in their mad battle with the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But there were some upright and honorable men in the South Carolina Legislature, and they finally succeeded in convincing their associates that Whitney had been maligned. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My honour is as untouched as that of the bitterest enemy who ever maligned me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Eustacia was now no longer the goddess but the woman to him, a being to fight for, support, help, be maligned for. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Lydgate was not at all sure that the Vicar maligned himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Shanna