Sentence examples for is malign from inspiring English sources
verb
To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
Throughout Africa the influence of China is malign as energy sources are locked up and African dictatorships coddled.
They should be asked to make an affirmative case for more frenzied capital markets activity, rather than just assume that tamping it down is malign.
Our mandate is to place sport at the service of humanity, with competition harnessing that which is best in our society and countering that which is malign.
Even if you do not think this is hopelessly naive in itself, it clashes with another trope favoured by these same observers: that the "politicisation" of the civil service is malign and desctructive.
They then get jailed, escape, die, or go mad, but the real culmination of each story occurs in that instant of revelation, when they realise that, despite everything they have always been told, the state is malign.
Never in my adult lifetime has one politician so perfectly embodied everything that is malign about my country: the proto-fascist nativism, the know-nothingism, the utterly cavalier lack of knowledge about the actual principles on which the country was founded.
The fact that Essex is maligned is hardly news.
It is at play when local partners' capacity is maligned.
For similar reasons, coalbed methane extraction is maligned by eco-activists as its "evil twin".
He has kept crime in check, but is maligned for his expanded ban on smoking.
In a sense the industry is maligned because it's outdated and misunderstood, according to Baldwin.
