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Definition of malign in English: malignadjective məˈlʌɪnməˈlaɪn 1Evil in nature or effect. she had a strong and malign influence Example sentencesExamples - He accurately intuited that all power is essentially implacable and malign.
- The place is populated by endearing eccentrics who eat seal-flipper pie and brood darkly on the sea's malign nature.
- The humanity of the characters is never totally eclipsed by their more malign traits.
- Politicians concern themselves predominantly and directly with the malign influence that broadcasting might exert on its audiences.
- Even from beyond the legislative grave, Section 28 continues to exercise its malign influence.
- The worst aspect of science fiction/science fantasy books is their malign neglect of the laws of economics.
- The piece centred on the malign effect he believes environmental sceptics have on discussion of pollution and industrialisation.
- And we can't really know how far his malign influence has spread.
- The American Empire emerges, then, not as a complex phenomenon with some good effects and some malign ones.
- But what of the few, the very few, who are not allowed to watch TV, whose elders have decided that it is a malign influence?
- In that climate of malign neglect, the bureau's ills were allowed to fester.
- Manifest in the two friends' fortunes is the malign effect of commercialism.
- Government policy has a massive and usually malign effect.
- We should not believe that this malign aspect of human nature which sleeps in all of us has gone away or will ever go away.
- Racism of some kind is just about universal but some forms are much more malign than others.
- Whilst not sent with any malign intent, the letter was an " oppressive document".
- Professor Snape is a malign influence and should be given a spell away.
- In the poorest parts of the world, such images are said to have a particularly malign influence.
- Why were the Lanarkshire whistle-blowers accused of malign intent for demanding early action?
- A misguided strategy, but not, I think, a malign one.
Synonyms harmful, evil, bad, baleful, hostile, inimical, destructive, malevolent, evil-intentioned, malignant, injurious, spiteful, malicious, vicious literary malefic, maleficent - 1.1archaic (of a disease) malignant.
Example sentencesExamples - But it was no match for the malign tumor, first detected just last spring, his colleagues said.
- Therapeutic measures such as bleeding and purging, designed originally to get rid or excess or malign humours, continued to be used.
- After hours spent quelling the fire with cold water, ‘he succumbed to a fever so malign that in just a few days he expired in the icy embrace of death.’
- Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours.
verb məˈlʌɪnməˈlaɪn [with object]Speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner. don't you dare malign her in my presence Example sentencesExamples - Tommy went on to pay tribute to the county footballers, saying they are often maligned.
- While eggs may have an unhealthy image, the evidence suggests they have been unfairly maligned.
- Prescott has been much maligned for its substantial increase in heat output.
- The Yankees and Red Sox are often maligned by the other owners for bloated payrolls.
- A victory for the champion team Sydney has been much maligned this year.
- He was also taken aback because he felt the PR consultant was maligning someone who was dead.
- In all the articles maligning students of the past two decades for apathy, the media rarely deign to mention this counterexample.
- Social services must be the most maligned group of people in today's society.
- And I thought she was one of the most maligned people in American history.
- Second, they'd imply that Chalabi had been unjustly maligned or demonized by opponents with other agendas to pursue.
- Men have been so maligned by our society that they are not taken seriously when they protest.
- I shall delight in maligning him at every hand's turn.
- And yet, never has realism (to use a very broad term) been so maligned.
- Event after event causes Philip to wonder whether Rachel is a scheming murderous or grossly maligned woman.
- He did not set out to falsely malign anyone or advance some hidden political agenda.
- The bench has been much maligned all season, and not all of the complaints were unwarranted.
- There was a time at mid-century when maligning the mother took a more generalized form.
- Now that we have Camilla installed, her champion wrote, should we still be maligning this lady?
- Shame on you, Jim Ross, for maligning a man for making the right decision.
- But he denied the army had been maligning politicians to discredit them.
Synonyms defame, slander, libel, blacken someone's name/character, smear, run a smear campaign against, vilify, speak ill of, spread lies about, accuse falsely, cast aspersions on, run down, misrepresent, calumniate, traduce, denigrate, disparage, slur, derogate, abuse, revile informal bad-mouth, knock, drag through the mud/mire, throw/sling/fling mud at, do a hatchet job on British informal rubbish, slag off rare asperse, vilipend
Derivatives noun məˈlʌɪnəməˈlaɪnər In recent years, the internet has provided a new medium for malcontents and maligners to spread fiction as fact to a wide swath of the public through mass distributed e-mails. Example sentencesExamples - It's not simply, as the maligners would have it, a moneygrabbing procedure.
- Her image was photo montaged, whisper the maligners.
- In other words, do the McCaw maligners - including opposition coaches in this country - have a point when they say he gets a free ride from referees.
- Kevin also gives himself the opportunity to vent a lot of anger and frustration out at the film industry, Internet maligners and, um, more Internet maligners.
noun məˈlɪɡnɪtiməˈlɪɡnədi He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. Example sentencesExamples - Despite their obvious malignity, so pronounced as to have raised clinical questions, Mr Latham's own diagnoses are not entirely faulty.
- Yet it's not the malignity of some papers, but the mentality of their readers, that is the problem.
- The legal systems need for a motive results in generic stories of denial, revenge, or ‘motiveless malignity.’
- The result is a rising tide of neglect, cruelty, sadism, and joyous malignity that staggers and appalls me.
adverb məˈlʌɪnliməˈlaɪnli What unites the tyrannical of this world is the human instinct to obey, and to conform, an instinct malignly exploited by evil leaders. Example sentencesExamples - However, the other woman is not helping and is staring malignly at me.
- But don't let them lurk deep in your soul's most secret crannies, malignly pulling strings and making you act out in absurd ways.
- It is also the case that contemporary historians malignly reinvoke that tradition of extermination.
- Though I have tried to weed them all out, some will remain, lurking malignly in the depths of inner parts.
Origin Middle English: via Old French maligne (adjective), malignier (verb), based on Latin malignus 'tending to evil', from malus 'bad'. Rhymes align, assign, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, condign, confine, consign, dine, divine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, swine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine Definition of malign in US English: malignadjectiveməˈlaɪnməˈlīn 1Evil in nature or effect; malevolent. she had a strong and malign influence Example sentencesExamples - Professor Snape is a malign influence and should be given a spell away.
- Even from beyond the legislative grave, Section 28 continues to exercise its malign influence.
- And we can't really know how far his malign influence has spread.
- Why were the Lanarkshire whistle-blowers accused of malign intent for demanding early action?
- We should not believe that this malign aspect of human nature which sleeps in all of us has gone away or will ever go away.
- Government policy has a massive and usually malign effect.
- Politicians concern themselves predominantly and directly with the malign influence that broadcasting might exert on its audiences.
- But what of the few, the very few, who are not allowed to watch TV, whose elders have decided that it is a malign influence?
- Manifest in the two friends' fortunes is the malign effect of commercialism.
- Whilst not sent with any malign intent, the letter was an " oppressive document".
- The piece centred on the malign effect he believes environmental sceptics have on discussion of pollution and industrialisation.
- The humanity of the characters is never totally eclipsed by their more malign traits.
- A misguided strategy, but not, I think, a malign one.
- The worst aspect of science fiction/science fantasy books is their malign neglect of the laws of economics.
- He accurately intuited that all power is essentially implacable and malign.
- Racism of some kind is just about universal but some forms are much more malign than others.
- In the poorest parts of the world, such images are said to have a particularly malign influence.
- The place is populated by endearing eccentrics who eat seal-flipper pie and brood darkly on the sea's malign nature.
- The American Empire emerges, then, not as a complex phenomenon with some good effects and some malign ones.
- In that climate of malign neglect, the bureau's ills were allowed to fester.
Synonyms harmful, evil, bad, baleful, hostile, inimical, destructive, malevolent, evil-intentioned, malignant, injurious, spiteful, malicious, vicious - 1.1archaic (of a disease) malignant.
Example sentencesExamples - But it was no match for the malign tumor, first detected just last spring, his colleagues said.
- After hours spent quelling the fire with cold water, ‘he succumbed to a fever so malign that in just a few days he expired in the icy embrace of death.’
- Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours.
- Therapeutic measures such as bleeding and purging, designed originally to get rid or excess or malign humours, continued to be used.
verbməˈlaɪnməˈlīn [with object]Speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner. don't you dare malign her in my presence Example sentencesExamples - And yet, never has realism (to use a very broad term) been so maligned.
- I shall delight in maligning him at every hand's turn.
- While eggs may have an unhealthy image, the evidence suggests they have been unfairly maligned.
- But he denied the army had been maligning politicians to discredit them.
- There was a time at mid-century when maligning the mother took a more generalized form.
- The Yankees and Red Sox are often maligned by the other owners for bloated payrolls.
- Event after event causes Philip to wonder whether Rachel is a scheming murderous or grossly maligned woman.
- Now that we have Camilla installed, her champion wrote, should we still be maligning this lady?
- Second, they'd imply that Chalabi had been unjustly maligned or demonized by opponents with other agendas to pursue.
- A victory for the champion team Sydney has been much maligned this year.
- Men have been so maligned by our society that they are not taken seriously when they protest.
- And I thought she was one of the most maligned people in American history.
- Prescott has been much maligned for its substantial increase in heat output.
- He did not set out to falsely malign anyone or advance some hidden political agenda.
- The bench has been much maligned all season, and not all of the complaints were unwarranted.
- Shame on you, Jim Ross, for maligning a man for making the right decision.
- He was also taken aback because he felt the PR consultant was maligning someone who was dead.
- Tommy went on to pay tribute to the county footballers, saying they are often maligned.
- In all the articles maligning students of the past two decades for apathy, the media rarely deign to mention this counterexample.
- Social services must be the most maligned group of people in today's society.
Synonyms defame, slander, libel, blacken someone's character, blacken someone's name, smear, run a smear campaign against, vilify, speak ill of, spread lies about, accuse falsely, cast aspersions on, run down, misrepresent, calumniate, traduce, denigrate, disparage, slur, derogate, abuse, revile
Origin Middle English: via Old French maligne (adjective), malignier (verb), based on Latin malignus ‘tending to evil’, from malus ‘bad’. |