单词	malign
释义	malign1 verbmalign2 adjective malignma‧lign1 /məˈlaɪn/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINmalign1 Origin: 1400-1500 Old French malignier ‘to do evil, deceive’, from Late Latin malignari, from Latin malignus; ➔ MALIGN2 Verb Table VERB TABLE malign Simple Form Present I, you, we, they malign he, she, it maligns Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they maligned Present perfect I, you, we, they have maligned he, she, it has maligned Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had maligned Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will malign Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have maligned Continuous Form Present I am maligning he, she, it is maligning you, we, they are maligning Past I, he, she, it was maligning you, we, they were maligning Present perfect I, you, we, they have been maligning he, she, it has been maligning Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been maligning Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be maligning Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been maligning Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Schools have been maligned by politicians and newspapers. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But I could be maligning the lad. But Turabi says his country is being maligned. He had allowed himself to be maligned in the press to protect the political people. I wish to malign no one. Public relations is much maligned about its influence on the media. They had gotten along well together until his parents came into the vicinity and began to malign his wife. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► much maligned  a much maligned politician to say unpleasant things about someone that are untrue SYN  slander:  She had seen herself repeatedly maligned in the newspapers. a much maligned politicianGRAMMAR Malign is usually passive. malign1 verbmalign2 adjective malignmalign2 adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINmalign2 Origin: 1400-1500 Old French maligne, from Latin malignus, from male ‘badly’ + gigni ‘to be born’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES malign spirits EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A malign child of the Cold War who had once been the uncrowned underworld king of Berlin. Clinton's deviousness evoked a fury among Republicans, and contributed to the malign partisanship of the capital. That was the malign beauty of it all, which I spent seven grudging years admiring. 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. Those on the rung just below are often rendered as ridiculous rather than evil, as inept or boorish rather than malign. harmful OPP  benign:  a malign influence
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