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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. speak unfavorably about;
- Example: "She badmouths her husband everywhere"
[syn: badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. evil or harmful in nature or influence;
- Example: "prompted by malign motives"
- Example: "believed in witches and malign spirits"
- Example: "gave him a malign look"
- Example: "a malign lesion"

2. having or exerting a malignant influence;
- Example: "malevolent stars"
- Example: "a malefic force"
[syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Malign \Ma*lign"\, v. i. To entertain malice. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Malignance
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

malign adj 1: 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] 2: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil] v 1: speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere" [syn: badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

140 Moby Thesaurus words for "malign": antagonistic, antipathetic, asperse, atrocious, backbite, bad-mouth, baleful, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, befoul, besmirch, bespatter, bestial, bitchy, blacken, bloody, blow upon, brutal, brutish, calumniate, cast aspersions on, cast reflections on, catching, communicable, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cussed, damaging, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, decry, defame, defile, deleterious, denigrate, depreciate, derogate, despiteful, destructive, detract, detrimental, disadvantageous, disparage, disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, evil, fatal, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, harmful, hateful, hostile, hurtful, infectious, infective, inhuman, inimical, iniquitous, injurious, internecine, invidious, kill-crazy, killing, lethal, libel, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mean, mephitic, merciless, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, murderous, nasty, noisome, noncivilized, noxious, ominous, ornery, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, pitiless, poisonous, pollute, prejudicial, rancorous, revile, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, scandal, scandalize, scatheful, slander, slur, smear, smirch, soil, spatter, spiteful, stain, sully, taint, tameless, tarnish, tear down, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, traduce, uncivilized, ungentle, untamed, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vilify, virulent, vituperate, wicked, wild