verb
- Speak unfavorably about.
- usage: "She badmouths her husband everywhere"
- synonyms: badmouth, traduce, drag through the mud
adjective
- Evil or harmful in nature or influence.
- usage: "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"
- Having or exerting a malignant influence.
- usage: "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
- synonyms: malefic, malevolent, evil
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