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malignadjective having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of itboth parties to the divorce showed a malign desire to make each other's future life utterly miserable bad(slang), bitchy, catty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vicious, virulent devious, scoundrelly, scurvy, snakelikeacrimonious, bitter, envious, jaundiced, jealous, rancorous, resentful, vindictive, vitrioliccontemptuous, deprecating, derogatory, disdainful, disparaging, mean-spirited, obnoxious, opprobrious, scornful, snide, snotty, unkind, unkindly, unlovingbaleful, baneful, evilharsh, hostile, inimicalacrid, caustic, poisonous, scathing, venomous benevolent, benign, benignant, loving, unmalicious compassionate, good, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, sympathetic, warm, warmheartedaffable, agreeable, amiable, cordial, friendly, genial, gracious, nice, pleasantaffectionate, amorous, sweet, tender, tenderheartedhumanealtruistic, high-minded, humanitarian, magnanimous, noble, philanthropic(also philanthropical) malignverbto make untrue and harmful statements abouta candidate who believes that it is possible to win an election without maligning anyone asperse, blacken, calumniate, defame, libel, slander, smear, traduce, vilify belittle, denigrate, detract, disparagediscredit, disgrace, dishonor, shameabase, debase, degrade, humble, humiliatedisdain, scorn exalt, glorify, honoracclaim, applaud, commend, praiseesteem, respectadmire, regardadore, revere, venerate, worship adj.sinister, baleful, malign mean seriously threatening evil or disaster.sinister suggests a general or vague feeling of fear or apprehension on the part of the observer.a sinister aura haunts the place baleful imputes perniciousness or destructiveness to something whether working openly or covertly.exerting a corrupt and baleful influence malign applies to what is inherently evil or harmful.the malign effects of racism v.malign, traduce, asperse, vilify, calumniate, defame, slander mean to injure by speaking ill of.malign suggests specific and often subtle misrepresentation but may not always imply deliberate lying.the most maligned monarch in British history traduce stresses the resulting ignominy and distress to the victim.so traduced the governor that he was driven from office asperse implies continued attack on a reputation often by indirect or insinuated detraction.both candidates aspersed the other's motives vilify implies attempting to destroy a reputation by open and direct abuse.no criminal was more vilified in the press calumniate imputes malice to the speaker and falsity to the assertions.falsely calumniated as a traitor defame stresses the actual loss of or injury to one's good name.sued them for defaming her reputation slander stresses the suffering of the victim.town gossips slandered their good name in the 14th century |