Malign Synonyms and Antonyms

mə-līn
Slander
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. accuse
  2. misrepresent
  3. badmouth
  4. scandalize
  5. traduce
  6. drag through the mud
Antonyms:
  1. praise
  2. uphold
Strongly suggestive of great harm, menace, or evil
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. baleful
  2. sinister

Words Related to Malign

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Malign Sentence Examples

  • If aliens were encountered, they were grotesque and probably malign.

  • There are people who are eaten up by religious mania, swept along by some malign force which they call faith.

  • At Rhodes he met his coadjutor Piso, who was seeking everywhere to thwart and malign him.

  • It should be remembered that what with the known timidity of his colleagues, and what with the strength and violence of the Russian party in England, his achievement at Berlin was like the reclamation of butter from a dog's mouth; as Prince Bismarck understood in acknowledging Disraeli's gifts of statesmanship. It should also be remembered, when his Eastern policy in 1876-1878 is denounced as malign and a failure, that it was never carried out.

  • The influence of Donne upon the literature of England was singularly wide and deep, although almost wholly malign.

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