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Synonyms for malign

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Synonyms for malign

strongly suggestive of great harm, menace, or evil

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Synonyms for malign

evil or harmful in nature or influence

having or exerting a malignant influence

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London, Sept 2 (ANI): Madonna has claimed that Wallis Simpson, who was involved in an affair with King Edward VIII, has always been wrongly maligned by history books.
A HEAD teacher who has just retired after 31 years at the same school has heaped praise on the "much maligned" area in which she worked.
Car parks (as Peter Blundell Jones observes more trenchantly on p81) are a deeply maligned and malign building type, being little more than stacked floor plates, usually designed to lowest common denominator principles.
The 15th child of Marie Theresa, Queen-Empress of Austria, and the youngest of eight sisters, all sharing the name Maria, little Antoine was to make a long and tragic journey from sheltered and ill-tutored child to 14-year-old wife of French Dauphin Louis Auguste, the future Louis XVI, to mother, to reviled and maligned queen, to a prematurely aged woman of 38, bound and shorn, being carted to the guillotine.
With the unjustly maligned Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Lynch made a movie that was at once mind-bending and thematically focused.
After getting an apology from former Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) Chief Victor Corpus, Senator Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson said he hopes other people, including some media personalities, who had maligned him in the past, would follow suit.
The ministry said Geo had maligned armed forces by airing image of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt.
Then as to why court is being maligned. Contempt of court is being committed through false statements.
The leadership of every country has been maligned by his notorious ideas.
'I have been vilified in the past; my name used, abused and maligned. Recently, there had been efforts to discredit me again.
Responding to a question regarding continuous, intermittent display of picture of DG-ISI, alongwith public accusations of DG-ISI's involvement and litigations against the process, Gen Asim Bajwa said that ISI was globally maligned for 8 continuous hours.
Steele of the University of Washington in Seattle, turning "one of the most maligned drugs in human history [into] a milk of human kindness."