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Malign

adjective

Evil or harmful in nature or influence. "Believed in witches and malign spirits" , "Gave him a malign look" , "A malign lesion"

Having or exerting a malignant influence. Synonyms: evil, malefic, malevolent. "A malefic force"

verb

(past & past part. maligned; pres. part. maligning)

Speak unfavorably about. Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce.

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... continued and became louder. A sort of deadness and strange weariness seemed to brood in the air, as if the great monster were in a sinister and heavy mood, full of an almost malign lethargy. The orchestral players ceased from tuning their instruments, and talked together in their ...

— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens

... nature as were constantly postulated by Oriental science. Herophilus and Erasistratus and Galen would hardly have pursued their anatomical studies with equanimity had they believed that ghostly apparitions watched over living and dead alike, and exercised at will a malign influence. ...

— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... the roots of his hair. Somebody was in the bank—at two o'clock in the morning—with tools for burglary. He was a scholarly old fellow, brought up in New England and cast out to the uttermost frontier by the malign tragedy of poverty. Adventure offered no appeal to him. His soul quaked as he waited with slack, feeble muscles upon the discovery that only a locked door stood between him and ...

— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine

... Mephistopheles, there are a few independent themes which portray the malign influence of the spirit of Evil—the movement is marked Allegro vivace ironico!—but most of the material is a transformation of the Faust themes which are here burlesqued, parodied; as if all the noble aspirations of Faust were being mocked and set at naught. ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding

... know you malign me," laughed his daughter. "And as for these other girls, they fuss less than any girls you ever saw from ...

— Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch • Annie Roe Carr

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