malign

verbs

speak unfavorably about
"She badmouths her husband everywhere"
badmouth, drag through the mud, malign, traduce
is derived from
malignment
is derived from
maligner

adjectives

evil or harmful in nature or influence
"prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"
malign
antonym
benign
is similar to
like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads
"remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"
cancerous
see also
harmful or evil in intent or effect
maleficent
see also
causing or capable of causing harm
"too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
harmful
see also
lacking kindness
"a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"
unkind
is an attribute of
quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
malignance, malignancy, malignity
having or exerting a malignant influence
"malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
evil, malefic, malevolent, malign
is derived from
malignity