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Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.
Robert Fisk

Meaning of "malign" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MALIGN

Via Old French from Latin malīgnus spiteful, from malus evil.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MALIGN

malign  [məˈlaɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MALIGN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Malign is a verb and can also act as an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb malign in English.

WHAT DOES MALIGN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of malign in the English dictionary

The definition of malign in the dictionary is evil in influence, intention, or effect. Other definition of malign is to slander or defame.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MALIGN

PRESENT

Present
I malign
you malign
he/she/it maligns
we malign
you malign
they malign
Present continuous
I am maligning
you are maligning
he/she/it is maligning
we are maligning
you are maligning
they are maligning
Present perfect
I have maligned
you have maligned
he/she/it has maligned
we have maligned
you have maligned
they have maligned
Present perfect continuous
I have been maligning
you have been maligning
he/she/it has been maligning
we have been maligning
you have been maligning
they have been maligning
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I maligned
you maligned
he/she/it maligned
we maligned
you maligned
they maligned
Past continuous
I was maligning
you were maligning
he/she/it was maligning
we were maligning
you were maligning
they were maligning
Past perfect
I had maligned
you had maligned
he/she/it had maligned
we had maligned
you had maligned
they had maligned
Past perfect continuous
I had been maligning
you had been maligning
he/she/it had been maligning
we had been maligning
you had been maligning
they had been maligning
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will malign
you will malign
he/she/it will malign
we will malign
you will malign
they will malign
Future continuous
I will be maligning
you will be maligning
he/she/it will be maligning
we will be maligning
you will be maligning
they will be maligning
Future perfect
I will have maligned
you will have maligned
he/she/it will have maligned
we will have maligned
you will have maligned
they will have maligned
Future perfect continuous
I will have been maligning
you will have been maligning
he/she/it will have been maligning
we will have been maligning
you will have been maligning
they will have been maligning
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would malign
you would malign
he/she/it would malign
we would malign
you would malign
they would malign
Conditional continuous
I would be maligning
you would be maligning
he/she/it would be maligning
we would be maligning
you would be maligning
they would be maligning
Conditional perfect
I would have malign
you would have malign
he/she/it would have malign
we would have malign
you would have malign
they would have malign
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been maligning
you would have been maligning
he/she/it would have been maligning
we would have been maligning
you would have been maligning
they would have been maligning
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you malign
we let´s malign
you malign
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to malign
Past participle
maligned
Present Participle
maligning
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MALIGN


align
əˈlaɪn
aline
əˈlaɪn
hardline
ˌhɑːdˈlaɪn
hotline
ˈhɒtˌlaɪn
interline
ˌɪntəˈlaɪn
Klein
klaɪn
ligne
laɪn
line
laɪn
misalign
ˌmɪsəˈlaɪn
moline
məˈlaɪn
monocrystalline
ˌmɒnəʊˈkrɪstəˈlaɪn
offline
ˈɒfˌlaɪn
online
ˈɒnˌlaɪn
outline
ˈaʊtˌlaɪn
overlain
ˌəʊvəˈlaɪn
realign
ˌriːəˈlaɪn
reline
ˌriːˈlaɪn
top-of-the-line
ˌtɒpəvðəˈlaɪn
underline
ˌʌndəˈlaɪn
unline
ʌnˈlaɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MALIGN

malic
malic acid
malice
malice aforethought
malicho
malicious
malicious falsehood
malicious wounding
maliciously
maliciousness
malignance
malignancies
malignancy
malignant
malignantly
maligner
malignities
malignity
malignly
malignment

WORDS THAT END LIKE MALIGN

ad campaign
assign
benign
campaign
champaign
design
ensign
fashion design
foreign
graphic design
industrial design
interior design
marketing campaign
pound sign
redesign
reign
resign
sign
sovereign
web design

Synonyms and antonyms of malign in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MALIGN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «malign» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of malign

Translation of «malign» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MALIGN

Find out the translation of malign to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of malign from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «malign» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

诽谤
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

calumniar
570 millions of speakers

English

malign
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बदनाम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شريرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пагубное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

difamar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মারাত্মক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

calomnier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Malign
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verleumden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

中傷する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비방하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Malign
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hung tinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தீய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

द्वेष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

habis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malignare su
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

złośliwe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

згубний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

malign
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φθοροποιό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skadelike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

malign
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

malign
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of malign

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MALIGN»

The term «malign» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.749 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MALIGN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «malign» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «malign» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about malign

EXAMPLES

6 QUOTES WITH «MALIGN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word malign.
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James Buchan
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
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Robert Fisk
Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.
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Bob Geldof
I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Charles C. Mann
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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Lance Morrow
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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Sherwin B. Nuland
Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MALIGN»

Discover the use of malign in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to malign and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America
Tonry focuses on the racial disparities in the criminal justice system, especially apparent discrimination toward black males.
Michael Tonry, 1995
2
Cebuano Sorcery; Malign Magic in the Philippines
Author discusses the practice and medical implications of the the practice of sorcery in the Philippine islands of Cebu and Negros.
Richard Warren Lieban, 1967
3
Malign neglect: homelessness in an American city
Why are thousands more only a paycheck or two away from homelessness? In this book, Jennifer Wolch and Michael Dear reveal how homelessness happens and why "blaming the victim" doesn't work or even make sense.
Jennifer R. Wolch, Michael J. Dear, 1993
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The Malign Hand of the Markets: The Insidious Forces on Wall ...
This eye-opening book reveals: Why most of our assumptions about Wall Street are wrong How the financial sector profited from the government bailouts What most people don’t understand about home ownership Why the Dodd-Frank regulatory ...
John Staddon, 2012
5
Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction
This act he terms "malign-benign inversion," a curious "change of sign: plus has become minus, and vice versa" (81). Tiffauges's initial discovery of the process of malign-benign inversion constitutes a promethean act of rebellion, a willingness  ...
Sara R. Horowitz, 1997
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Bullying in Schools and What to Do about It: Revised and Updated
Elements. of. bullying. We can distinguish between two sorts of bullying, which we call (i) malign bullying and (ii) non-malign bullying. We will begin with malign bullying. Malign. bullying. What generally concerns us about bullying is its malign  ...
Ken Rigby, 2007
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
»poison: animosity, animus, rancor, antipathy, »enmity Ant charity —Con »mercy, grace, clemency, lenity: benignity, benignancy, kindness, kindliness (see corresponding adjectives at KIND) malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, spiteful ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies
THE MALIGN CYCLE Unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. — Matthew 25:39 A malign cycle is often associated with poverty: being poor, ...
Robert Edwards Lane, 2000
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Prisons and Reformatories at Home and Abroad: Being the ...
But another distinction to be made is between crimes of passion themselves — as between crimes of malign passion, as murder; and crimes of non-malign passion, as rape. Crimes springing from malign feelings are always criminal, while ...
Edwin Pears, 1872
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Computing and Combinatorics: First Annual International ...
(x) that assigns a nonnegative real number to each bit string x is said to be malign if, for any algorithm, the worst- case computation time and the average computation time of the algorithm are functions of the same order when each bit string x is ...
Ding-Zhu Du, Ming Li, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MALIGN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term malign is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pentagon chief vows support to Israel against Iran′s ′malign
"Hezbollah is sponsored of course by Iran, which is why the United States will continue to help Israel counter Iranian malign influence in the ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
2
Donald Trump Takes Step Toward Making Peace With GOP …
Presidential candidate Donald Trump said he respects Sen. John McCain and insisted that he didn't malign the Arizona Republican's war ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
Binay sues PDI, 3 lawmakers, 9 others | Inquirer News
Edgar Erice, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, and eight others for alleged concerted efforts to malign him and derail his campaign for the ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
4
Archbishop urges leaders not to scapegoat over Kathryn Steinle's …
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said Monday that the death of Kathryn Steinle should not be used as a justification to malign immigrants in ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
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From Israel perch, US vows to help counter Iran proxy threat
"Hezbollah is sponsored, of course, by Iran which is one of the reasons why the United States will continue to help Israel counter Iranian malign ... «The Fiscal Times, Jul 15»
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No shoes hurled, says Tota Singh - The Tribune
... Singh Panun on behalf of the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), an American organisation, was “false and mischievous to malign the image of the SAD”. «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Trinidad Express Newspapers: News | Seemungal: No State …
... Maxie Cuffie was resorting to desperate tactics to win the seat and this includes attempting to malign his (Seemungal) clean campaign. «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
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I am a threat only to those who believe in hatred: Teesta (IANS …
Setalvad said she faces six "politically motivated FIRs" and several other cases meant to malign her - all on the proposed memorial at the ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
9
allAfrica.com: Kenya: Cord Will Not Lie to Obama, Says Junet
There has been uncertainty in government over the opposition's agenda with the US leader amid claims that Cord is plotting to malign ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
10
The space for dissent is shrinking rapidly | Business Line
... cases in West Bengal were “cooked up” by the media, and intellectuals were “paid” to give suitable quotes to malign the State government! «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»

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