Malign

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about; speak evil of.
  • adj. Evil in disposition, nature, or intent.
  • adj. Evil in influence; injurious.
  • adj. Having or showing malice or ill will; malevolent.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
  • adj. malevolent.
  • v. To make defamatory statements about someone or something.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
  • adj. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure.
  • adj. Malignant.
  • v. To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
  • v. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
  • verb-intransitive. To entertain malice.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having a very evil disposition toward others; harboring violent hatred or enmity; malicious.
  • Unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; likely to do or cause great harm: as, the malign influence of a designing knave.
  • In astrology, having an evil influence.
  • Malignant.
  • Synonyms See list under malignant.
  • To treat with extreme enmity; injure maliciously.
  • To speak evil of; traduce; defame; vilify.
  • Synonyms Defame, Calumniate, etc. See asperse.
  • To entertain malice.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having or exerting a malignant influence
  • adj. evil or harmful in nature or influence
  • v. speak unfavorably about
    • Equivalent
    maleficent    cancerous   
    Antonym
    benign   
    Verb Form
    maligned    maligning    maligns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    asperse    smear    smirch    sully    denigrate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    malevolent    malicious    spiteful    unfavorable    unpropitious   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aline    Cline    Combine    Dine    Heine   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    malevolent    diabolical    malicious    sinister    vindictive   
     
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