| 单词 | malign |
| 释义 | ma·lign I. 1. a. < prompted by malign motives > < living in a malign environment > b. < a malign lesion > 2. a. < gave him a malign look > b. < believed in the existence of witches and malign spirits > II. intransitive verb obsolete transitive verb 1. obsolete a. b. 2. < gossips had maligned the lady — George Meredith > Synonyms: < little doubt that Lytton Strachey and other British historians have maligned Ward in order to build up the fame of “Chinese” Gordon — Richard Watts > The past participle may be less severe in suggestion and apply to the role of innocent reiteration in conditioning a reputation < in view of Hans Heysen's studies of this maligned and slandered tree, its beauty is clear enough — Thomas Wood †1950 > calumniate involves malice against the victim, is used more often in connection with public affairs and figures, and suggests blackening of the general reputation < calumniating him as a traitor in satisfying his ancient personal grudge > asperse may suggest continued attack on a reputation, sometimes by direct false accusation but often by covert depreciating insinuation < one may not admire it, but one can no longer asperse the integrity of those who do — Times Literary Supplement > vilify may suggest a direct ranting or railing abuse without subtlety, an attempt to make vile and shameful < should not be vilified in newspapers, for that is want of tact and waste of space — Rudyard Kipling > < his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery — W.S.Maugham > traduce is the least rich in connotation in this series. More than the preceding words, it may suggest success in derogation < fear of this witch of the East [Cleopatra], shamelessly traduced by Octavian's agents, hagrode the popular mind — John Buchan > defame stresses actual loss of reputation brought about by malicious charges < defaming and defacing, till she left not even Lancelot brave nor Galahad clean — Alfred Tennyson > slander connotes nasty maliciousness in motivation, oral utterance, frequently covert, and definite suffering or loss for the victim < you would darkly slander him you cannot openly defame — E.G.Bulwer-Lytton > < he was rector until the new governor listened to some cock-and-bull story against him, and made him resign. He was the best preacher they ever had — he'd have been a bishop one day, if someone hadn't slandered him to the governor — R.A.W.Hughes > libel, more legalistic than the others in this series, is much the same as slander in its connotations, except that it may imply issuance of the defamatory matter in wider and more permanent media than slander. In legal or legalistic use denotations and connotations of words in this series vary in different jurisdictions |
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