ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsMmalign
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malign
Meaning: to speak harmful and often false claims about someone
malign in a sentence
How malign is used in real sentences:
The article sought to malign the scientist by distorting her research record.
His rivals circulated false stories to malign him before the election.
“The company hired a partisan consultant who presented every stoppage as union sabotage and tried to malign Ortiz by alleging, without evidence, that she damaged machinery.”
— from the passage The Authority No Chart Showed
Synonyms for malign
Other words for malign — slander, defame and vilify — carry the same meaning.
- slander
- defame
- vilify
Antonyms of malign
Words that mean the opposite of malign:
Where it comes from
From Latin malignari, meaning 'to act maliciously.'
Memory hook
MAL means 'bad': to malign someone is to speak badly of them.