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verb | adjective malignmalign1 /məˈlaɪn/ verb [transitive usually passive] ETYMOLOGYmalign1Origin: 1400-1500 Old French malignier to do evil, deceive, from Late Latin malignari, from Latin malignus; ➔ MALIGN2 VERB TABLEmalign |
| Present | I, you, we, they | malign | | he, she, it | maligns | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | maligned | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have maligned | | he, she, it | has maligned | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had maligned | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will malign | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have maligned |
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| Present | I | am maligning | | he, she, it | is maligning | | you, we, they | are maligning | | Past | I, he, she, it | was maligning | | you, we, they | were maligning | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been maligning | | he, she, it | has been maligning | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been maligning | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be maligning | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been maligning |
► much-maligned/oft-maligned/often-maligned (=criticized by a lot of people, often unfairly) to say or write bad things about someone that are untrue: She has been maligned by politicians and newspapers.much-maligned/oft-maligned/often-maligned (=criticized by a lot of people, often unfairly) verb | adjective malignmalign2 adjective formal ETYMOLOGYmalign2Origin: 1400-1500 Old French maligne, from Latin malignus, from male badly + gigni to be born harmful: malign spirits—malignly adverb—malignity /məˈlɪgnət̮i/ noun [uncountable] |