Definitions for maligns

maligns ma·lign

Spelling: [muh-lahyn]
IPA: /məˈlaɪn/

Maligns is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in maligns (agilmns).

Definitions for maligns

adjective

  1. evil in effect; pernicious; baleful; injurious:
  2. having or showing an evil disposition; malevolent; malicious.

verb (used with object)

  1. to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame:

Origin of maligns

1275-1325; Middle English maligne Middle French Latin malignus. See mal-, benign

Examples for maligns

Instead, it is too often a treacherous spy, a maligner and falsifier.

He forgives your maligner, and slanders you with all his heart.

The author of the Suite de Merlin seems to have been her first maligner.

She had saved her maligner's life, but courage deserted her with the act.

She proves her innocence by going before the king and swearing that her maligner has stolen one of her golden slippers.

But I denounce him as a calumniator of my country; a maligner of this nation.

Slowly they turned their heads to look at the fence, upon the other side of which stood the maligner of their eyes.

It would be quite superfluous to follow this maligner in the details of this, and a subsequent attack in an agricultural journal.

Word Value for maligns
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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