malign

Word family

ma·lign1 /məˈlaɪn/ verb [transitiveT]

UNTRUEto say unpleasant things about someone that are untrue 诽谤，诬蔑，中伤 SYN slander

She had seen herself repeatedly maligned in the newspapers.

她看到自己在报纸上一再受到诽谤。

a much maligned politician

一个备受中伤的政治家

n Grammar

Malign is usually passive.

Examples from the Corpus

malign• But Turabi says his country is being maligned.• Public relations is much maligned about its influence on the media.• Schools have been maligned by politicians and newspapers.• They had gotten along well together until his parents came into the vicinity and began to malign his wife.• He had allowed himself to be maligned in the press to protect the political people.• I wish to malign no one.• But I could be maligning the lad.

much maligned• A very scholarly and erudite work, widely acclaimed at the time but since much maligned.• Public relations is much maligned about its influence on the media.• What's more, Tony Boyle, much maligned after his two abortive outings against the Dubs, scored four points.• The Radio 1 playlist is much maligned, but it is as honest and fair as any system.• Whether the result is really much better than our much maligned regional courses is hard to say.

malign2 adjectiveadj formal

HARM/BE BAD FORharmful 有害的 OPP benign

a malign influence

有害的影响

Examples from the Corpus

malign• Those on the rung just below are often rendered as ridiculous rather than evil, as inept or boorish rather than malign.• That was the malign beauty of it all, which I spent seven grudging years admiring.• A malign child of the Cold War who had once been the uncrowned underworld king of Berlin.• The malign effects suffered by inbred animals show how evolution can exploit hidden diversity.• They presume that changing values are declining values and seek some malign influence to blame.• Clinton's deviousness evoked a fury among Republicans, and contributed to the malign partisanship of the capital.• malign spirits

Origin malign1