MALIGN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Malign

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/məlˈaɪn/ Listen

Malign

adjective

Evil or harmful in nature or influence. "Believed in witches and malign spirits" , "Gave him a malign look" , "A malign lesion"

Having or exerting a malignant influence. Synonyms: evil, malefic, malevolent. "A malefic force"

verb

(past & past part. maligned; pres. part. maligning)

Speak unfavorably about. Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce.

See more definitions of Malign...

See images of 'Malign'

Antonyms of 'Malign'

Etymology of 'Malign'

Related searches:

Share |

"Malign" Quotes from Famous Books

... his own form there, as the "grisly king," he mourns most his beauty lost; neither is his resolute courage long admirable. To me, at least, so far from having any heroic quality, he seems always the malign fiend sacrificing innocence to an impotent revenge. In all great creations of art it is necessary that this consistency of beauty, virtue, reason, and joy should ...

— Heart of Man • George Edward Woodberry

... as troublesome vermin of the mouse kind. Why should they not have described us as rodents of graceful form, endowed with wonderful sagacity and activity to which the smaller animal called the mouse is allied? These human beings have also the audacity to malign our character, to insinuate that we are fickle and undependable, besides being fierce and savage. Thus, when one of their own race changes sides, they say that the wretched biped has 'ratted,' Not content with abusing us, they make savage war against our race by every cruel ...

— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston

... has made an effort to follow the process by which a weak woman and a weaker man, ignorant of the forces struggling within them and susceptible to malign influences from without, through terrible mistakes and bitter failure, at length ...

— The Ascent of the Soul • Amory H. Bradford

... and lonely setting of the little scene as well, served to convey the full suggestion of the adjective with a force the man himself could scarcely have intended. Something had passed by, not so much evil, wicked, or malign as strange and alien—uncanny. Rostom, a man utterly careless of physical danger, rising to it, rather, with delight, was ...

— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood

... to her chagrin, he took his hand away; it was as though Timmy's malign influence had fallen between them. His very tone changed; it was no longer ...

— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

More quotes...