Both Uses of
malign
in
Middlemarch
- Lydgate was not at all sure that the Vicar maligned himself.†
Chpt 2 *
- And this cruel outward accuser was there in the shape of a wife—nay, of a young bride, who, instead of observing his abundant pen-scratches and amplitude of paper with the uncritical awe of an elegant-minded canary-bird, seemed to present herself as a spy watching everything with a malign power of inference.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(malign as in: malign his character) speak unfavorably about