Definition:
(v)To speak badly of a person. To gossip about another person in a derogatory way. Disparage one's good name or reputation.
Pronunciation:
muh - LINE
Also Known As:
slander, criticize, smear, libel, disparage, insult
Examples:
To malign my client in this way is truly unjust and slanderous!
In a Quote
When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity. This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone. Robert L. Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
