Malign

//məˈlaɪn//

"Malign" in a Sentence (13 examples)

"Nay, Juno, too, who now, in mood malign, / earth, sea and sky is harrying, shall incline / to better counsels, and unite with me / to cherish and uphold the imperial line, / the Romans, rulers of the land and sea, / lords of the flowing gown. So standeth my decree."

"Soft snares I purpose round the queen to weave, / and wrap her soul in flames, that power malign / shall never change her, but her heart shall cleave / fast to AEneas with a love like mine."

Hither, with fates malign, / I steer, and landing for our purposed town / the walls along the winding shore design, / and coin for them a name "AEneadae" from mine.

"The potential for surprise in the cyber realm will increase in the next year and beyond as billions more digital devices are connected—with relatively little built-in security—and both nation states and malign actors become more emboldened and better equipped in the use of increasingly widespread cyber toolkits," the report said.

Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.

It may be true that such running is exceptional rather than normal; there are still innumerable checks of one kind or another, many of them, alas, directly or indirectly the result of engine failures; and bad coal has often a malign influence.

He was sure they [the stars] were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.

a malign ulcer

malign ulcers

To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.

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The obvious joy of England's players and supporters after that dramatic finale was another indicator that the Uefa Nations League, mocked and maligned at its inception, is capturing the public's imagination.

Yet, even as Democratic party leadership has decried this mass deportation plan and even as the bill maligns Democrats as victimizing Americans through its policy of “open borders,” 48 Democratic members of Congress voted for this GOP-backed bill.

The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.

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