malign /(?)/

1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

   Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.

2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.]

imp. & p. p. Maligned; p. pr. & vb. n. Maligning

1. To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.]

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

2. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.

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

1. To entertain malice. [Obs.]