How to use "malign" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "malign" in popular movie and book plots

  • This earns him the wrath of Shaodong (Alan Tern) who tries to malign Dayang.  - Portrait of Home II
  • Meer Habeel and Balaaj malign Gul Ara and convince Sarkar Sahab by showing documents that she is doing fraud by slowly selling all the property to get her thrown out of home.  - Sarkar Sahab
  • When Seth visits Haley and realizes that she is at a malign fraternity party, he finds her with her teaching assistant's arm and jacket around her.  - Everything Before Us
  • Kapalik with the help of Shyama (Molina Devi) tries to malign her wanting her to return.  - Kapalkundala (1933 film)
  • He slowly becomes persuaded that some malign influence is warping life in Cainsmarsh.  - The Croquet Player
  • After a couple of scenes, we come to know that Sudarshan Rao inducted Satya into the college to malign the image of Suryam so that his daughter Surekha hates Suryam in that process.  - Vamshoddharakudu
  • Anauroch: The Empire of Shade takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting, where malign forces conspire to undo the Weave and replace it with the Shadow Weave, causing the Great Desert of Anauroch to change.  - Anauroch: The Empire of Shade
  • Storylines are drawn mainly from the traditional staples of the Boys' Adventure genre, including plot elements such as hidden treasure, cryptic clues to be solved, ghostly apparitions, malign and unscrupulous villains, and spies.  - The Flaxton Boys
  • The majority of the adventure then focuses on the characters exploring the citadel and encountering the malign creatures that have taken up residence within, such as kobolds and goblins.  - The Sunless Citadel
  • Zigrid tells them of his plan to infiltrate Munkar's fortress, find the Amulet of Life and put an end to the malign sorcerer's reign.  - Barbarian (film)
  • The children, discovering this, malign him so horribly that he notifies the police.  - Ouaga-Saga
  • Robbie remembers stories about the Great Selkie, the malign ruler of the selkies, who dwells in his sea-palace and seduces golden-haired girls away with him to his home under the sea.  - A Stranger Came Ashore
  • Instantly their true forms are revealed: Thomas Covenant's son Roger Covenant has been wearing the guise of his father, whilst Jeremiah is shown to be under the malign influence of a croyel, a parasitic being that feeds upon and takes over the mind of its host.  - Fatal Revenant
  • Initially fearful of the organ-players malign intent the narrator chides himself over his own foolish notions and then exits the church.  - In the Court of the Dragon
  • As Daniel grows, he too falls under Belle's malign influence, and she turns him into a spoiled, disobedient brat.  - The Devil and Daniel Webster (film)
  • As her horrific visions intensify, Vega begins to piece together a dark jigsaw puzzle illuminating evil’s malign power.  - At the End of the Spectra
  • Eventually, with the help of a local Water mage Peter Scott, Maya discovers and trains her own Earth magic, and manages to defeat the malign force that seeks to destroy her.  - The Serpent's Shadow (Lackey novel)
  • Gilman's odd experiences seem to escalate as he dreams that he signs the "Book of Azathoth" under the commands of Keziah, Brown Jenkin, and the infamous "Black Man" (a form of the malign Nyarlathotep, which is, like Azathoth, a deity in the fictional world of the Cthulhu Mythos).  - The Dreams in the Witch House
  • Erik begins to consider the legends and beliefs of the Hopi: they say their people originally came from the Third World, which was evil, and so they climbed up into a kiva in this, the Fourth World, to escape it; the obvious speculation is that a malign power of the Third World was sealed by the burial of the kiva and that it wants the window to this world opened back up.  - Haunted Mesa
  • Within the tower, he notices Polaris in the sky and senses it as a malign presence, hearing a rhyme which appears to be spoken by the star: Uncertain as to its meaning, he drifts off to sleep, thus failing in his duty to guard Olathoë.  - Polaris (short story)
  • Disillusioned with Rome and the imperial court which seem "like some stifling forest of bronze-work, transformed as if by malign enchantment out of the living trees", puzzled by the source of Cornelius's serenity, still Epicurean by temperament but seeking a more satisfying life-philosophy, Marius makes repeated visits alone to the Campagna and Alban Hills, on one occasion experiencing in the Sabine Hills a sort of spiritual "epiphany" on a perfect day of peace and beauty (end of 'Part the Third').  - Marius the Epicurean
  • In New York, Bill West's love for beautiful Alice Coker has stirred him to become a go-getting type, leaving behind his wild youth, and none too soon, as his uncle Cooley, under the malign influence of white-bearded Professor Appleby, has adopted a youth named Horace and disowned his scrounging family.  - Bill the Conqueror
  • This earns him the wrath of Shaodong (Alan Tern) who tries to malign Dayang.  - Portrait of Home
  • Sometime later Michael wanders to the house of Edwin Curwin and, under the influence of a malign presence, murders and cannibalizes the old man.  - The Beast Within
  • They proceed for their own malign amusement to mentally expose him to his own subconscious lusts, desires, and petty hatreds; prior to their interference he had suppressed his awareness of these urges.  - The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
  • Blake’s interference inadvertently arouses or summons the malign being of the title, and he leaves the church aware that he has caused some mischief.  - The Haunter of the Dark
  • The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive in time to witness the death of one of the chosen companions, Abu, who is vaporised by smoke sprayed from nozzles on either side of the doorway from which he emerges, and intervene to save Vana, the other selected for this fate, using her survival as a means to convince Selris and the Gonds of the malign influence of the Krotons on their society.  - The Krotons
  • The term "Abhuman" was used by Hodgson in The Night Land to name (apparently) several different species of intelligent beings evolved from humans who interbred with alien species or adapted to changed environmental conditions and were seen as decayed or malign by those living inside the Last Redoubt, who preserved artificially (to an unspecified extent) their human characteristics, though they were not fit for the new environmental conditions.  - The Night Land
  • and that destroying it would do much more harm than good, releasing whatever malign power is maintained by it.  - From a Buick 8
  • They realise that Hare and many others are under the malign influence of a powerful wizard who is promising life after death.  - The Farthest Shore
  • His aunt Alethea is aware of this relationship, but dies before she can fulfill her aim of counteracting the parents' malign influence on the boy.  - The Way of All Flesh

Example sentences for "malign" in interesting articles

  • “Pure malign mischief.”The end of crowdsourcing?In Stefanovitch’s and Cebrian’s paper, they conclude: “The real impact of the attack was not to destroy the assembled pieces but to destroy the user base of the platform, and to disrupt the recruitment dynamics.”All the motivation generated by weeks of good PR, a fun task and a smart financial incentive scheme evaporated in the face of attacks by a single person lasting, in total, no more than a couple of hours.  - The 2011 DARPA Shredder Challenge
  • This is an illusion, and probably a somewhat malign illusion: either a self-deception, or an instance of being deceived by others, or very probably both. Achen and Bartels also cite data comparing the voting record of each member of the U.S.  - Boaty McBoatface and the False Promise of Democracy
  • After all, at least in the traditional telling, the whole point of the Enlightenment had been to dispel the malign influence of the Catholic Church.The Berkeley library had only one book about the college at La Flèche: Un Collège de Jésuites aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles, 1,200 pages in four fat volumes with marbled covers, printed in 1889.  - How David Hume Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis
  • It also defined ‘actual malice,’ a federal Constitutional standard, as malign intent.  - U.S. Court: Bloggers Are Journalists, even when they're libeling you
  • (Even then, so long as minds can't be read, thoughts would remain secret.)Every one of us is entrusted with information that our family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances would rather that we kept private.I'd always imagined that if an "I have nothing to hide" adherent were to give me access to their private affairs, I'd quickly be able to show them that a malign actor could wreak havoc on their lives with the information they had revealed.  - This Man Has Nothing to Hide – Not Even His Email Password
  • Petroleum revenues, if they are large, exercise curious and malign effects on their recipients.  - What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
  • Petroleum revenues, if they are large, exercise curious and malign effects on their recipients.  - What if we never run out of oil? (2013)
  • Construction in floodplains, lax building codes, lack of preparation, the malign effects of climate change, and even underinsurance exacerbate the impact of the disasters.  - Disasters That Worry Emergency Planners Most

Meaning of "malign" in English

  • having or exerting a malignant influence
    Example
    - a malefic force
  • evil or harmful in nature or influence
    Examples
    - believed in witches and malign spirits
    - gave him a malign look
    - a malign lesion
  • speak unfavorably about

Meaning of "malign" in Hindi

  • निन्दा करना ( Ninda karana, nindaa karanaa)
  • द्वेष ( Dvesh, dwesh)
  • अनिष्ट ( Anisht)

Synonyms of "malign"

  • traduce
  • malefic
  • badmouth
  • drag through the mud
  • evil
  • malevolent

Antonyms of "malign"

  • benign
  • benignant

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