'Malign' definitions:

Definition of 'malign'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [ant: benign, benignant]
adjective
Having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil]
verb
Speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere" [syn: badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud]

Definition of 'Malign'

From: GCIDE
  • Malign \Ma*lign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maligned; p. pr. & vb. n. Maligning.] [Cf. L. malignare. See Malign, a.] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. [1913 Webster]
  • To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. --South. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Malign'

From: GCIDE
  • Malign \Ma*lign"\, v. i. To entertain malice. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Malignance

Definition of 'malign'

From: GCIDE
  • malign \ma*lign"\, a. [L. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign, Malignant.]
  • 1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. [1913 Webster]
  • Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

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