malign

1. a. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Source: opted

2. a. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets. Source: opted

3. a. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. Source: opted

4. a. To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. Source: opted

5. a. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. Source: opted

6. v. i. To entertain malice. Source: opted

7. adj. evil or harmful in nature or influence Source: wordnet

8. adj. having or exerting a malignant influence Source: wordnet

9. v. speak unfavorably about Source: wordnet

10. 1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon. 2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets. 3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] Bacon. 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. Spenser. 2. 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. South. To entertain malice. [Obs.] Source: webster

11. To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; towrong; to injure. [Obs.]The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will againstprivate men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murderingthem. Spenser. Source: adambom

12. j:27/v:73 a. evil or harmful in nature or influence Source: ecdict

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