I. verb
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Schools have been maligned by politicians and newspapers.
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But I could be maligning the lad.
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But Turabi says his country is being maligned.
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He had allowed himself to be maligned in the press to protect the political people.
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I wish to malign no one.
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Public relations is much maligned about its influence on the media.
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They had gotten along well together until his parents came into the vicinity and began to malign his wife.
II. adjective
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malign spirits
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A malign child of the Cold War who had once been the uncrowned underworld king of Berlin.
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Clinton's deviousness evoked a fury among Republicans, and contributed to the malign partisanship of the capital.
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That was the malign beauty of it all, which I spent seven grudging years admiring.
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The malign effects suffered by inbred animals show how evolution can exploit hidden diversity.
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They presume that changing values are declining values and seek some malign influence to blame.
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Those on the rung just below are often rendered as ridiculous rather than evil, as inept or boorish rather than malign .