MALIGNED
Adjective
maligned (comparative more maligned, superlative most maligned)
Assailed with contemptuous language
Verb
maligned
simple past tense and past participle of malign
Synonyms
reviled
Anagrams
• delaming, medaling
Source: Wiktionary
MALIGN
Ma*lign", a. Etym: [L. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind
or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F.
malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign,
Malignant.]
1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent
enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon.
2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a
malign aspect of planets.
3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] Bacon.
Ma*lign", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maligned; p. pr. & vb. n. Maligning.]
Etym: [Cf. L. malignare. See Malign, a.]
Definition: To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to
wrong; to injure. [Obs.]
The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against
private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering
them. Spenser.
2. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to
vilify; to asperse.
To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised
falling. South.
Ma*lign", v. i.
Definition: To entertain malice. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition