Sentence examples for malign motives from inspiring English sources

But more malign motives cannot yet be excluded.

They recoil when a reviewer seems excessively harsh, and sometimes assign malign motives to the reviewer when it happens.

But it is not hard to imagine more malign motives: creating a false rumour to profit from manipulating a firm's share price, for example.

This was the argument I made in 2003 about Iraq – that the Bush administration had malign motives, but it would have the positive effect of toppling a horrific dictator, so we should support it.

And third, the chorus of right-wing critics ascribes to the United States malign motives, suggesting this process is sparked by an "unfriendly" President Obama who wants to "damage" Israel in his effort to "reorient" U.S. foreign policy.

When confronted with overwhelming evidence of innocence, prosecutorial misconduct, and forensic charlatanism, I've often heard or read state officials duck the actual merits of the arguments, and instead point out that the people making them are anti-death penalty zealots, or liberals from out of state, or some other effort to malign their motives.

Within government circles, I frequently heard the view that Greenpeace's motives are malign.

To concede that they have a motive, however malign, is to invest them with a dignity one feels the need to deny them.

HAVE I been sold a hard-luck story by an MP whose motives were maligned in the press?

Even if the pranksters' motives are not malign, they can do companies and their brands a great deal of damage, in no time at all.

I don't join those maligning the Wikileaks operation's motives, its internal cohesion or impugning its patriotism.