[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

malign \malign"\, a. l. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a
   bad kind or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth,
   race, kind: cf. f. malin, masc., maligne, fem. see malice,
   gender, and cf. benign, malignant.
   1. having an evil disposition toward others; harboring
      violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; --
      opposed to benign.
      1913 webster

            witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.
                                                  --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure;
      as, a malign aspect of planets.
      1913 webster

   3. malignant; as, a malign ulcer. r. --bacon.
      1913 webster
see also:
malice gender benign malignant benign 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

malign \malign"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. maligned; p. pr.  vb.
   n. maligning. cf. l. malignare. see malign, a.
   to treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to
   wrong; to injure. obs.
   1913 webster

         the people practice what mischiefs and villainies they
         will against private men, whom they malign by stealing
         their goods, or murdering them.          --spenser.
   1913 webster

   2. to speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander;
      to vilify; to asperse.
      1913 webster

            to be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing,
            and to be despised falling.           --south.
      1913 webster
see also:
maligned maligning malign 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

malign \malign"\, v. i.
   to entertain malice. obs.
   1913 webster malignance

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

malign
     adj 1: evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign
            motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits";
            "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion" ant: benign
     2: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent
        stars"; "a malefic force" syn: malefic, malevolent, evil
     v : speak unfavorably about; "she badmouthes her husband
         everywhere" syn: badmouth, traduce, drag through
         the mud
see also:
benign malefic malevolent evil badmouth traduce 
drag through the mud 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

140 moby thesaurus words for "malign":
   antagonistic, antipathetic, asperse, atrocious, backbite,
   bad-mouth, baleful, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, befoul, besmirch,
   bespatter, bestial, bitchy, blacken, bloody, blow upon, brutal,
   brutish, calumniate, cast aspersions on, cast reflections on,
   catching, communicable, contagious, corroding, corrosive,
   corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cussed, damaging,
   deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, decry, defame, defile,
   deleterious, denigrate, depreciate, derogate, despiteful,
   destructive, detract, detrimental, disadvantageous, disparage,
   disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, evil, fatal, feral, ferine,
   ferocious, fierce, harmful, hateful, hostile, hurtful, infectious,
   infective, inhuman, inimical, iniquitous, injurious, internecine,
   invidious, kill-crazy, killing, lethal, libel, malefic, maleficent,
   malevolent, malicious, malignant, mean, mephitic, merciless,
   miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, murderous, nasty,
   noisome, noncivilized, noxious, ominous, ornery, pernicious,
   pestiferous, pestilential, pitiless, poisonous, pollute,
   prejudicial, rancorous, revile, ruthless, sanguinary, savage,
   scandal, scandalize, scatheful, slander, slur, smear, smirch, soil,
   spatter, spiteful, stain, sully, taint, tameless, tarnish,
   tear down, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, traduce, uncivilized,
   ungentle, untamed, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous,
   vicious, vilify, virulent, vituperate, wicked, wild

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