The state of being malignant or diseased. / A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign. / That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. / (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.

A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society. / (historical, derogatory, obsolete) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.

Assailed with contemptuous language

simple past tense and past participle of malign

Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. / Malevolent. / (oncology) Malignant.

(transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. / (transitive, archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.

The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness. / A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malign

present participle of malign