Malign(a.) Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
Malign(a.) Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
Malign(a.) Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.
Malign(a.) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
Malign(a.) To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
Malign(v. i.) To entertain malice.
Malignance(n.) Alt. of Malignancy
Malignancy(n.) The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
Malignancy(n.) Unfavorableness; evil nature.
Malignancy(n.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
Malignancy(n.) The state of being a malignant.
Malignant(a.) Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
Malignant(a.) Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
Malignant(a.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
Malignant(n.) A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.
Malignant(n.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
Malignantly(adv.) In a malignant manner.
Maligned(imp. & p. p.) of Malign
Maligner(n.) One who maligns.
Maligning(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malign
Malignity(n.) The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
Malignity(n.) Virulence; deadly quality.
Malignity(n.) Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud.
Malignly(adv.) In a malign manner; with malignity.
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