Sample Sentences for
malign
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malign as in:  malign his character

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She refused to malign her teammate, even when wild rumors were flying.
malign = speak unfavorably about
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    He said the Taliban had attacked me not for my campaign for education but because I tried to "malign [their] efforts to establish the Islamic system."  (source)
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    We teenagers are much maligned; for example, we would not keep Mr. Reagan in office.  (source)
    maligned = spoken of unfavorably
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    But every major news organization, even the oft-maligned Fox News, has always told the truth about Obama's citizenship status and religious views.  (source)
    maligned = criticized
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    But to malign the good name of America's greatest television judge—that's below the belt.  (source)
    malign = speak unfavorably of
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    I glared at her—the woman had maligned me—and then I noticed for the first time the swell in her belly and realized she was pregnant again.  (source)
    maligned = spoken unfavorably about
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    So long as you can keep disagreeing with each other violently enough and maligning each other in the popular press, and so long as you have clever agents, you can keep yourselves on the gravy train for life.  (source)
    maligning = speaking unfavorably about
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    I would not have dwelt so long upon a circumstance that, perhaps, at first sight, may appear not very momentous, if I had not thought it necessary to justify my character, in point of cleanliness, to the world; which, I am told, some of my maligners have been pleased, upon this and other occasions, to call in question.†  (source)
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    He endlessly chastises fellow clients, lets loose bigoted tirades and maligns Robinson for offering safe harbor to those who cuss, smoke or otherwise violate his sense of civility.†  (source)
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    For this maligner of the general good, If still we fear his force, he must be woo'd; His haughty godhead we with pray'rs implore, Your scepter to release, and our just rights restore.†  (source)
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    It seemed to rise with the turbulent brown river swollen by the April rains, and in the evenings lay across the blacked-out city like a mental dusk which the whole country could sense, a quiet and malign thickening, inseparable from the cool late spring, well concealed within its spreading beneficence.  (source)
    malign = harmful or evil
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    I wailed and gnashed my teeth over the fact that I had maligned a fellow student.  (source)
    maligned = spoken unfavorably of
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    I, knowing less than nothing, began maligning the food.†  (source)
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    It accumulated all week like some malign volcanic mass.†  (source)
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malign as in:  a malign influence

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She noticed a malign influence creeping into the group, making people meaner than before.
malign = harmful or evil in its effect
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    The word "influenza" actually means a malign influence from the stars.  (source)
    malign = harmful or evil
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    Dany caught a glimpse of a malign black face, almost human, and an arched tail dripping venom ...and then the box flew from her hand in pieces, turning end over end.  (source)
    malign = evil
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    They were strollers and drop-ins, tourists and islanders alike who had come down to the bay for a late-night drink or something to eat and to look out at the forbidding statues repelling whatever malign spirits might at any moment emerge from the sea.  (source)
    malign = evil or harmful
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    It was as if the illuminated dome of the Royal York Hotel had been wrenched off and I was being stared at by a malign presence located somewhere above the black spangled empty surface of the sky.  (source)
    malign = evil
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    He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.  (source)
    malignly = in an evil manner
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    If you had seen how Joff died ...he fought, Jaime, he fought for every breath, but it was as if some malign spirit had its hands about his throat.  (source)
    malign = harmful or evil
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    In the countries of the Communist ideology, all resistance of any import is linked to the totally malign capitalist succubi, and in America any man who is not reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.  (source)
    malign = harmful and evil
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