malign

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - verb

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

II - adjective

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)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  malefic, malevolent, evil, badmouth, traduce, drag through the mud
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  benign, benignant