Malign

//məˈlaɪn//

Synonyms for "malign" (248 found)

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Translations

56 translations across 13 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • βλασφημέω verb (slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • зловреден adj (malevolent)
  • злокачествен adj (oncology: malignant)
  • зъл adj (evil or malignant)
  • лош adj (evil or malignant)

Czech

4 entries
  • maligní adj (oncology: malignant)
  • neblahý adj (evil or malignant)
  • zhoubný adj (oncology: malignant)
  • škodlivý adj (evil or malignant)

Finnish

3 entries
  • paha adj (evil or malignant)
  • pahanlaatuinen adj (oncology: malignant)
  • pahantahtoinen adj (malevolent)

French

2 entries
  • injurier verb (slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about)
  • vilipender verb (slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about)

German

4 entries
  • arglistig adj (malevolent)
  • bösartig adj (malevolent)
  • bösartig adj (oncology: malignant)
  • böse adj (evil or malignant)

Latin

3 entries
  • malignus adj (evil or malignant)
  • malignus adj (malevolent)
  • diffāmō verb (slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about)

Middle English

4 entries
  • maligne adj (evil or malignant)
  • maligne adj (malevolent)
  • maligne adj (oncology: malignant)
  • malignen verb (slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • maligno adj (evil or malignant)

Romanian

3 entries
  • malign adj (evil or malignant)
  • malign adj (oncology: malignant)
  • defăima verb (slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about)

Slovak

1 entries
  • zhubný adj (oncology: malignant)

Spanish

1 entries
  • malignar (desus.) verb (slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • злоякісний adj (oncology: malignant)
  • лихословити verb (slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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"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."

Source: tatoeba (6785811)

"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."

Source: tatoeba (6798668)

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.

Source: tatoeba (6921753)

"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.

Source: tatoeba (11691762)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.