Adjective malign has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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
  1. 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
    Derived forms: noun malignment1, noun maligner1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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