malign
malign 英 [məˈlaɪn] 美 [məˈlaɪn]
vt. 诽谤，污蔑 adj. 恶意的，有害的
进行时:maligning 过去式:maligned 过去分词:maligned 第三人称单数:maligns
- If you malign someone, you badmouth them — just like the jilted girlfriend who tells the whole school her ex has bad breath and head lice.
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- vt. 诽谤，污蔑
- adj. 恶意的，有害的
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1. She feels she has been much maligned by the press.
她觉得她遭到了新闻界的恣意诽谤。
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2. a malign force, a malign influence, a malign effect
有害的势力╱影响╱作用
- malign (adj.) early 14c., from Old French maligne "having an evil nature," from Latin malignus "wicked, bad-natured," from male "badly" (see mal-) + -gnus "born," from gignere "to bear, beget," from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget."
- malign (v.) "to slander," mid-15c., from earlier more literal sense of "to plot, to contrive" (early 15c.), from Old French malignier "to plot, deceive, pervert," from Late Latin malignare "to do maliciously," from malignus "mean, unkind" (see malign (adj.)). Related: Maligned; maligning.
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