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Synonyms for malignant

Grammar : Adj
Spell : muh-lig-nuhnt
Phonetic Transcription : məˈlɪg nənt

Définition of malignant

Origin :
  • 1560s, in reference to diseases, from Middle French malignant and directly from Late Latin malignantem (nominative malignans) "acting from malice," present participle of malignare "injure maliciously" (see malign (v.)). Earlier in the church malignant "followers of the antichrist," from Latin ecclesiam malignantum in early Church writing, applied by Protestant writers to the Church in Rome (1540s). As an adjective, Middle English used simple malign (early 14c.). Related: Malignantly.
  • adj diseased
Example sentences :
  • The forger smiled, and there was malignant triumph in his expression.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • The pursuit had a malignant pleasure in it: we knew the men we were driving before us.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • His malignant and revengeful passions were not so easily laid.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • You are a most malignant and dangerous Whig to have so far drawn them from their duty.'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Into his snarl he incorporated all that was vicious, malignant, and horrible.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • "You have won the wager, but not quite," he said, with a malignant smile.
  • Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
  • For Blood at the moment he had nothing beyond a malignant glance.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • An' is it for a houseless sot like you to take to minglin' with him malignant?
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • I had a horrible feeling that they were alive and malignant.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 » by Various
  • I thought that the very expression of his eyes as he turned them on me was malignant.
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever

Antonyms for malignant

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