Malign, må-line', a

having a very evil disposition toward others; malicious; unfavourable; pernicious: v.a. to speak evil of; to traduce; to defame: v.n. to entertain malice (L. maligns, or mali genus, ill-born, from male, and Gr. gennao, to produce). Malignly, ma-line'-le, ad. in a malign manner.