malign
verb (used with object)
malignly
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a word derived from
malign.
Example Sentences
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If you want to look at that malignly you certainly could do: they have made it so nobody can afford to write stories about them.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2015
Dear Worried, There’s something malignly brilliant about hiding sick fan obsession under cover of a thesis.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2012
The small, malignly intelligent mechanician contemplated him, unsmiling, although far from unfriendly.
From From the Car Behind by James Montgomery Flagg
He does for us as a man doth for himself; for he who sees the need and waits for asking, malignly sets himself already to denial.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Charles Eliot Norton
Alas! such injury leaveth Blindly to doat poor love's folly, malignly to will.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
