Synonyms for malign

Synonyms for (verb) malign

Synonyms: drag through the mud, traduce, malign, badmouth

Definition: speak unfavorably about

Usage: She badmouths her husband everywhere

Similar words: sully, defame, denigrate, calumniate, besmirch, asperse, slander, smear, smirch

Definition: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

Usage: The journalists have defamed me! The article in the paper sullied my reputation


Synonyms for (adj) malign

Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil

Definition: having or exerting a malignant influence

Usage: malevolent stars; a malefic force

Similar words: maleficent

Definition: harmful or evil in intent or effect


Synonyms: malign

Definition: evil or harmful in nature or influence

Usage: prompted by malign motives; believed in witches and malign spirits; gave him a malign look; a malign lesion

Similar words: cancerous

Definition: like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads

Usage: remorse was cancerous within him; pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children


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