See malign in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "It may be true that such running is exceptional rather than normal; there are still innumerable checks of one kind or another, many of them, alas, directly or indirectly the result of engine failures; and bad coal has often a malign influence.",
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"ref": "1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"ref": "2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport:",
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"ref": "1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:",
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"text": "The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "zloslovja",
"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
"word": "злословя"
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"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
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"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
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"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
"word": "schlechtmachen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
"word": "verleumden"
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"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
"word": "lästern"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
"word": "Übles nachsagen"
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"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
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"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
"word": "malignen"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "slander or traduce; to make defamatory statements about",
"word": "defăima"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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