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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about; speak evil of.
  2. adj. Evil in disposition, nature, or intent.
  3. adj. Evil in influence; injurious.
  4. adj. Having or showing malice or ill will; malevolent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having a very evil disposition toward others; harboring violent hatred or enmity; malicious.
  2. Unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; likely to do or cause great harm: as, the malign influence of a designing knave.
  3. In astrology, having an evil influence.
  4. Malignant.
  5. Synonyms See list under malignant.
  6. To treat with extreme enmity; injure maliciously.
  7. To speak evil of; traduce; defame; vilify.
  8. Synonyms Defame, Calumniate, etc. See asperse.
  9. To entertain malice.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
  2. adj. malevolent.
  3. v. transitive To make defamatory statements about someone or something.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
  2. adj. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure.
  3. adj. rare Malignant.
  4. v. obsolete To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
  5. v. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
  6. v. obsolete To entertain malice.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having or exerting a malignant influence
  2. adj. evil or harmful in nature or influence
  3. v. speak unfavorably about

Etymologies

  1. Via French from Latin malignus, from malus (bad) + genus (sort, kind). Compare benign. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English malignen, to attack, from Old French malignier, from Late Latin malignārī, from Latin malignus, malign; see genə- in Indo-European roots. Adj., from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin malignus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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