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Adjective malign has 2 senses
- malign - evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"
Antonyms: benign, benignant, harmless, nonmalignant, kindly, genial, kind
- malefic, malevolent, malign, evil - having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
Antonym: beneficent (indirect, via maleficent)
Verb malign has 1 sense
- badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud - speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere"
--1 is one way to defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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