Thesaurus: malign

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1. a. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
2. a. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
3. a. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.
4. a. To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
5. a. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
6. v. i. To entertain malice.
7. adj. evil or harmful in nature or influence
8. adj. having or exerting a malignant influence
9. v. speak unfavorably about
10. j:27/v:73 a. evil or harmful in nature or influence