Usually means: Speak about someone harmfully, untruthfully.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word MALIGN:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. malign: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. malign: Merriam-Webster
  3. malign: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. malign: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. malign: Collins English Dictionary
  6. malign: Vocabulary.com
  7. Malign, malign: Wordnik
  8. malign: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. malign: Wiktionary
  10. malign: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. malign: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. malign: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Malign, malign: Dictionary.com
  14. malign (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. malign: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Malign (band), Malign: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Malign: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. malign: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. malign: Rhymezone
  20. malign: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. malign: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. malign: FreeDictionary.org
  23. malign: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. malign: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. malign: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. malign: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. malign: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. malign: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (malign)

▸ adjective:  Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
▸ adjective:  Malevolent.
▸ adjective:  (oncology) Malignant.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.

Similar:
malevolent, evil, malefic, malignant, maleficent, harmful, injurious, traduce, badmouth, drag through the mud, more...

Opposite:
benign, good, kind, nice

Types:
benign, malignant, benign tumor, malignant tumor, more...

Phrases:
malign cell, malign cells, malign growth, malign tissue, opposite of malign, more...

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Similar:
malevolent, evil, malefic, malignant, maleficent, harmful, injurious, traduce, badmouth, drag through the mud, more...

Opposite:
benign, good, kind, nice

Types:
benign, malignant, benign tumor, malignant tumor, more...

Phrases:
malign cell, malign cells, malign growth, malign tissue, opposite of malign, more...

Colors:
    black,     dark red,     deep purple,     charcoal,     maroon, more...



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