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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
malign
speak unfavorably about - She badmouths her husband everywhere • Syn: badmouth, traduce, drag through the mud • Derivationally related forms: traducement (for: traduce), traducer (for: traduce), malignment, maligner • Hypernyms: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Somebody ----s somebody
1. evil or harmful in nature or influence (Freq. 1) - prompted by malign motives - believed in witches and malign spirits - gave him a malign look - a malign lesion • Ant: benign • Similar to: cancerous • See Also: harmful, maleficent, unkind • Attrubites: malignity, malignancy, malignance 2. having or exerting a malignant influence - malevolent stars - a malefic force • Syn: malefic, malevolent, evil • Similar to: maleficent • Derivationally related forms: malignity, malevolency (for: malevolent), malevolence (for: malevolent)
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