maligns
maligns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of malign.
Meaning of malign
Verb
malign (third-person singular simple present maligns, present participle maligning, simple past and past participle maligned)
- To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
- To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
- To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.
- The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
Words that rhyme with maligns
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- colour outside the lines
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- undefines
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- water lines
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Questions about maligns
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