having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.-unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.-malignant; as, a malign ulcer.-to treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.-to speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.-to entertain malice.