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Malign
Synonyms: These verbs mean to make evil, harmful, often untrue statements about another.
Defame suggests damage to reputation through misrepresentation:
Traduce connotes the resulting humiliation or disgrace:
Vilify pertains to open, deliberate, vicious defamation:
To asperse is to spread unfavorable charges or insinuations against: "Who could be so base as to asperse the character of a family so harmless as ours?" (Oliver Goldsmith).
Slander and calumniate apply to oral expression:
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ma·lign
To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about; speak evil of.
adj.
Evil in disposition, nature, or intent.
Evil in influence; injurious.
Having or showing malice or ill will; malevolent.
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ma·lig·nant
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1. disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
2. very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect.
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Malicious
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ma·li·cious
1. full of, characterized by, or showing malice; malevolent; spiteful: malicious gossip.
2. Law. vicious, wanton, or mischievous in motivation or purpose.
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mentally ill
adjective
suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"
Synonyms: These verbs mean to make evil, harmful, often untrue statements about another.
Defame suggests damage to reputation through misrepresentation:
Traduce connotes the resulting humiliation or disgrace:
Vilify pertains to open, deliberate, vicious defamation:
To asperse is to spread unfavorable charges or insinuations against: "Who could be so base as to asperse the character of a family so harmless as ours?" (Oliver Goldsmith).
Slander and calumniate apply to oral expression:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/malign
ma·lign
To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about; speak evil of.
adj.
Evil in disposition, nature, or intent.
Evil in influence; injurious.
Having or showing malice or ill will; malevolent.
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ma·lig·nant
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1. disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
2. very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect.
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Malicious
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ma·li·cious
1. full of, characterized by, or showing malice; malevolent; spiteful: malicious gossip.
2. Law. vicious, wanton, or mischievous in motivation or purpose.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mentally ill
mentally ill
adjective
suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"