How to Use malign in a Sentence

malign

1 of 2 adjective

• No one should treat the malign regime in Iran as a victim.
  — Will Hurd, WSJ, 25 June 2019
• The tweets run counter to the DOJ’s arguments and hint at a more malign motive.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
• Yes, the outcomes of testing can be put to malign uses.
  — Randall Kennedy, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• After a 10-minute break, the committee was back at it, with a one-two punch in an attempt to prove Trump's malign intent.
  — Norman Eisen, CNN, 14 June 2022
• The increase in their reserves would end up looking like a healthy aberration, not a malign trend.
  — The Economist, 23 Mar. 2021
• When Iran spread its malign influence, Trump acted to check it.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 3 Jan. 2020
• The most malign actors are the usual suspects in Russia, China and Iran, but others lurk too.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• So far, at least, the people, laws, and institutions that Brann referred to have proved strong enough to prevail over this malign project.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2020
• Iran’s malign activities across the region pose a long-term threat to stability in this part of the world.
  — Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Epistemic elites need to walk away from the malign influence of this behavior.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
• Some of them benign, others malign, but none escapable.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2022
• The masochistic double bind is a malign version of the narrator’s problem.
  — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• Both countries have become quick to assume the other has malign motives.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• Mr Hariri announced the move from Riyadh, blaming Iran’s malign influence on his country.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2017
• If the policy lives up to the hints dropped by senior officials, the United States will once again push back on Iran’s malign behavior.
  — Jonathan Schanzer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2017
• The story suggests that both men ignored the warnings and as a result were tools of malign foreign influence.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 May 2021
• Mark Palios, owner of the Tranmere Rovers in Birkenhead has spoken out against gambling operators as a malign force in the game.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• But sometimes, the reason for mistreatment is more malign.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
• But with the exception of a malign seductress, the characters are just too nice – which can be a comfort, but also a drama killer.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2021
• One of the countries that has been at the center of Russia’s malign influence has been Venezuela which has spent billions in securing its presence there.
  — Ben Evansky, Fox News, 5 May 2022
• Russia and China are malign powers that seek to divide us in various ways.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020
• The despotic regime whose malign indifference killed so many and cost so much cannot be allowed to pretend that nothing happened.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 June 2021
• Will those who orchestrated the events leading up to January 6th be given a pass for their malign actions?
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 21 June 2022
• The way this decision was released is evidence of malign intent.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Sep. 2021
• Iran is having an incredibly malign influence in Iraq, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Yemen.
  — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2019
• The story resurfaced as the United States leveled sanctions against Russia for a host of malign activities.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2021
• His aggressive and malign behavior is really a factor in the world.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2018
• Trump avoided direct confrontation with Putin and often sought to play down the Russian leader's malign actions.
  — Aamer Madhani, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
• The act had pushed gambling offshore and into the black market, its purpose ostensibly to protect sports organizations from the malign influence of that vice of chance.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
• The open legal questions and potential for malign use of generative AI hardly seem to be slowing investors’ interest.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022

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malign

2 of 2 verb

• Her supporters say she is being unfairly maligned in the press.
• But for the most part, the conference’s goals are not malign.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
• His pride had been stung, but not enough to malign a good customer.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• These groups contend the scandal maligns the priesthood and harms the Catholic faith.
  — Martha Mendoza, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
• Debra was maligning her own sweet Max just to get off the phone.
  — Allegra Goodman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Back in 2014, no one knew how maligned the stadium would be.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• For decades, the scale has been maligned and its use mired in controversy.
  — Kimberly Garrison, Philly.com, 1 May 2018
• The two have been maligned for each of the past two seasons for having near bottom-of-the-league save percentages.
  — Ross McKeon, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Kevin Love, maligned for much of the series for his poor offensive play, scored eight of his 14 points in the fourth quarter.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• In the video, the nurses malign the parents’ hygiene and breast-feeding practices.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• Still the busiest shopping day of the year for stores, Black Friday — often maligned, and sometimes brutal — is not for the faint of heart.
  — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
• For a franchise maligned as being run poorly, Phoenix sure seems like one that has been run well in the last year or so.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
• The Chiefs defense, maligned early in the season before coming on, got a three-and-out.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2020
• Trump's allies mounted a full-fledged campaign to pick the dossier apart -- and malign its author.
  — Matthew Mosk, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2021
• And yet, strangely, most of those who malign tourists are often tourists themselves.
  — Sophie Haigney, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• In the last week or so, Fox has managed to malign poor retirees and Jews while pandering to xenophobes.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• At least one of Stone's relatives, meanwhile, claims he was maligned.
  — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
• So different to the liberal legacy media that is maligned by the likes of Musk.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• But the value of the verbal takedown is maybe best shown by the people who are uncomfortable in the big leagues of maligning.
  — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
• She should be given credit for that, not maligned for not grabbing the hand when it was presented.
  — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• Yet when anyone points it out, they are brutally maligned as racist.
  — Stanley Goldfarb, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• Once maligned for being too fatty during the low-fat craze; these days, at the height of the low-carb diet trend the starchy root vegetables are just too carb-y.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 12 Sep. 2019
• Kansas City went three-and-out on its next possession, and a defense that has been maligned for most of Andy Reid’s tenure with the Chiefs failed to make a stop once again.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• Pelinka, who has been much maligned in this space, should be given credit for putting the Lakers in this position.
  — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• And the economic effect of the SEC’s new regulations will be malign.
  — The Editors, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
• That's really to malign the U.S. and pit Americans against each other.
  — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2020
• D’Angelo Russell, the Lakers’ maligned point guard who has resided inside trade machines all over the internet over the last month.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• But in both eras, the scientists, they're maligned either by people in society or by these alien life forces.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• During that trial, Trump publicly attacked a key witness in both cases and was subjected to a gag order for maligning the judge's clerk.
  — Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2024
• During the mid-twentieth century, an array of revisionist powers forged malign combinations to aid their serial assaults on the status quo.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024