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adjective

malign adj.

Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; opposed to benign. "Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits."

Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.

Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. (R.)

verb

Malign v. t. (past & past part. maligned; pres. part. maligning)

To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. (Obs.) "The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them."

To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. "To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling."

Malign v. i. To entertain malice. (Obs.)

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"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

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