Malign

Adjective

 * 1) evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
 * 2) malevolent.
 * 3) * 1891 - Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
 * He was sure they [the stars] were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.

Related terms

 * malignant

Antonyms

 * benign

Verb

 * 1)  To make defamatory statements about someone or something.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:defame

Adverbs for Malign
ominously; portentously; dangerously; undeniably; disastrously; calamitously; ruinously; venomously; poisonously; treacherously; ruthlessly; relentlessly; slanderously; incredibly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
Via French from Latin malignus:, from malus: + genus:. Compare benign.

Adjective

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 * German: böse, übelwollend

Anagrams

 * laming
 * lingam