"malign effects" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe negative consequences of an action or event. For example, "The malign effects of rapid industrialization in the area caused serious environmental damage."
I believe that this chorus has already had significant malign effects; it effectively bullied the Fed into talking about "tapering" despite a total absence of economic justification, and this — by leading markets to believe that the Fed was turning more hawkish in general — has led to higher long-term interest rates.
Complaints about the malign effects of congestion, especially from business, are at a new pitch.
Finally, he knows any seriously malign effects from Greece, should they occur, won't be detectable until after polling day.
Yet the insistence on immediate spending cuts continued to dominate the political landscape, with malign effects on the U.S. economy.
"Law and Order" is as much about the wordless bond between the twins as it is about the malign effects of van Aldegonde's nihilism.
All told, no matter what the Surgeon General said about the malign effects of cigarette smoking, the opposition to the regulation of cigarette advertising was of formidable proportions.
This would be compatible with a decrease in replicative integrity in histologically normal tissue with an underlying molecular defect and progression towards malignancy, or, as mentioned above, with a malign effect of tumour cells on their neighbours.
"The civil war in Syria with its attendant disintegration is having its predictable and malign effect.
The malign effect of floating plastic debris on seabirds, turtles and other sea creatures is well known.
I believe that the 90 percent claim had a remarkably malign effect on policy discussion, but let's look forward.
The prison intelligence service, which collates information on electronic dossiers stored in the pic, must determine whether a given prisoner is having a malign effect on the others.
