malign

  • 1malign — MALÍGN, Ă, maligni, e, adj. (Despre boli) De natură gravă, foarte primejdios. ♢ Tumoare malignă = tumoare canceroasă. Pustulă malignă = dalac. ♦ (Rar.) Înclinat spre rău, care face rău. [var.: (înv.) malín, ă adj.] – Din lat. malignus. cf. fr. m… …

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  • 2malign# — malign adj 1 malignant, *malicious, malevolent, spiteful Analogous words: inimical, hostile, rancorous, antipathetic, antagonistic (see corresponding nouns at ENMITY): venomous, virulent, *poisonous, toxic Antonyms: benign Contrasted words:… …

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  • 3Malign — may refer to Malign, a word meaning hostile, evil or ill wishing Malignant, a medical term describing a progressively worsening condition, such as cancer Malign (band), a gothic industrial band from San Francisco, California, best known for the… …

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  • 4malign — ma*lign , a. [L. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin, masc., maligne, fem. See {Malice}, {Gender}, and cf. {Benign}, {Malignant}.] 1. Having an evil disposition… …

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  • 5Malign — Ma*lign , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Maligned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Maligning}.] [Cf. L. malignare. See {Malign}, a.] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The people practice what mischiefs and… …

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  • 6Malign — est une group de black metal suédois formé à Spånga, Stockholm en 1994. Sommaire 1 Membres 1.1 Membres actuels 1.2 Membres anciens 2 Discographie …

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  • 7malign — [adj] hurtful, injurious antagonistic, antipathetic, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hateful, hostile, inimical, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malignant, noxious, pernicious, rancorous,… …

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  • 8malign — [mə līn′] vt. [ME malignen < OFr malignier, to plot, deceive < LL malignare < LL malignus, wicked, malicious < male, ill (see MAL ) + base of genus, born: see GENUS] to speak evil of; defame; slander; traduce adj. 1. showing ill will; …

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  • 9Malign — Ma*lign , v. i. To entertain malice. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 10malign — I verb abuse, anathematize, asperse, attack, attack the reputation of, besmirch, blaspheme, bring into discredit, calumniate, cast a slur upon, cast aspersions, curse, decry, defame, defile, denigrate, denounce, deprecate, derogate, disesteem,… …

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