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Malign

adjective

Evil or harmful in nature or influence. "Believed in witches and malign spirits" , "Gave him a malign look" , "A malign lesion"

Having or exerting a malignant influence. Synonyms: evil, malefic, malevolent. "A malefic force"

verb

(past & past part. maligned; pres. part. maligning)

Speak unfavorably about. Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce.

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"Malign" Quotes from Famous Books

... hold another course," he replied when he saw me weeping, "if thou wishest to escape from this savage place: for this beast, because of which thou criest out, lets not any one pass along her way, but so hinders him that she kills him; and she has a nature so malign and evil that she never sates her greedy will, and after food is hungrier than before. Many are the animals with which she wives, and there shall be more yet, till the hound shall come that will make her die of grief.... He shall hunt her through every town ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

... with embarrassing suddenness and dips the airy visitor into the "rank water." The butterfly finds no charm in the gloomy place and flies away, which less ethereal wanderers might likewise be fain to do. Now and then the stillness that reigned over that home of malign things was broken by the sound of a boat-horn on a lumber ...

— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett

... it that insults me? who dares to malign me? What spy of the Girondists, what traitor of the Bourbons, what hireling of the gold of Pitt, is among us?" exclaimed the bold ruffian, yet with a visage which, even at the distance, I could observe had lost its usual fiery hue, and turned ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various

... Milverton. You malign us. If I must give any account for my personal predilection for modern times, it consists perhaps in this, that we may now speak our mind. What Tennyson ...

— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps

... of sleep, raised himself on his elbow, then sat upright and looked over the ravine to the rocks of the Sirens' Isle. The name seemed to him now a fatal name, and everything connected with his sojourn in Sicily fatal. Surely there had been a malign spirit at work. In this early morning hour his brain, though unrefreshed by sleep, was almost unnaturally clear, feverishly busy. Something had met him when he first set foot in Sicily—so he thought now—had met him with a fixed and evil purpose. And that purpose had ...

— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

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