malign

v

1. slander, libel, calumniate, traduce, falsify, accuse falsely; misrepresent, belie, asperse, im- pute, insinuate; injure, abuse, assail, stab, insult, backbite, Sl. badmouth, engage in personalities; slur, sully, defile, smear, smirch, besmirch, soil, blacken, tarnish, stain, taint, smudge, blemish, spot, brand, stigmatize, drag through the mud, Sl. dump on.

2. defame, vilify, vilipend, denigrate, vituperate, scandalize, run down, berate, impugn, revile, gibbet, criticize, pull to pieces, cut up, shred, Sl. do a hatchet job on; give a bad name, speak ill of, speak evil of, sneer at, lampoon, pasquinade, muckrake; denounce, rail, curse, execrate, damn, imprecate, Obs. exprobate, anathematize, censure, cry down, reproach; belittle, disparage, deprecate, minimize, derogate, detract, decry, depreciate, devaluate, deflate, damn with faint praise; humiliate, humble, mortify, Sl. put down.

adj

3. pernicious, perilous, inimical, hurtful, baleful, baneful, harmful, deleterious, injurious, pestilential, pestiferous, noxious, detrimental, destructive; ominous, portentous, sinister, ill-omened, ill-starred, boding ill, unpropitious, inauspicious, minatory, menacing, threatening; unpromising, unfortunate, unfavorable, untoward, unlucky; extremely bad, calamitous, disastrous, catastrophic.

4. malevolent, malicious, wanton, malignant, maleficent, malefic, antagonistic, unfriendly, hostile, unkindly, obnoxious; spiteful, hateful, invidious, revengeful, vindictive, ill-disposed, rancorous, bitter, embittered, acrimonious, sardonic, venomous, envenomed, acerb; fiendish, demoniac, diabolic, evil-minded, fell, devilish, satanic, hellish, infernal; vicious, harsh, severe, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, inhuman, unnatural