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What is the adjective for malign?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs malign and malignify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

malign
  1. evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
  2. malevolent.
  3. (oncology) malignant
  4. Synonyms:
      5. malignant, malicious, malevolent, evil, vicious, hostile, nasty, hurtful, bad, mean, pernicious, baleful, cruel, spiteful, harmful, rancorous, virulent, maleficent, hateful, malefic, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, destructive, damaging, antagonistic, baneful, wicked, inimical, despiteful, catty, sinister, negative, antipathetic, aspersive, evil-intentioned, vindictive, poisonous, venomous, bitter, unkind, ill-natured, vitriolic, unfriendly, acrimonious, wounding, dangerous, vengeful, splenetic … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “We can never really know how far his malign influence has spread.”
malignant
  1. Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
  2. (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. malicious, malevolent, evil, vicious, nasty, hostile, spiteful, pernicious, hurtful, mean, vindictive, bitter, malign, bad, cruel, rancorous, unkind, hateful, maleficent, catty, wicked, inimical, malefic, pitiless, acrimonious, despiteful, splenetic, menacing, evil-intentioned, full of hate, of evil intent, ill-disposed, ill-natured, mean-spirited, venomous, virulent, baleful, poisonous, savage, unfriendly, vitriolic, injurious, deleterious, dangerous, detrimental, destructive, harsh, brutal, harmful, noxious … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The drug trafficker Harry Lime is on screen for only a few minutes, yet his malignant personality stains every sequence.”
      “Patients with severe neutropenia with fever or signs of infection and those with evidence of malignant disease should be hospitalized.”
      “We describe a case of a highly malignant primary liver tumor in an elderly woman.”
maligned
  1. Assailed with contemptuous language
  2. Synonyms:
      3. abused, condemned, rejected, scorned
  3. Examples:
      4. “The maligned politician faced relentless criticism and contemptuous language from his opponents.”
maligning
  1. present participle of malign
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slandering, vilifying, defaming, traducing, smearing, denigrating, disparaging, calumniating, libelling, libeling, slurring, aspersing, discrediting, sullying, besmirching, staining, blackening, tainting, tarnishing, stigmatising, stigmatizing, scandalising, scandalizing, befouling, derogating, reviling, slighting, misrepresenting, vilipending, badmouthing, backbiting, burlesquing, caricaturing, villainizing, bad-mouthing, speaking ill of, dragging through the mire, dragging through the mud, running down, casting aspersions on, giving a black eye, flinging mud at, slinging mud at, speaking evil of, spreading scandal about, giving a bad name, tearing down, telling lies about, doing a hatchet job on, throwing mud at … more
malignified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of malignify
malignifying
  1. present participle of malignify
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