malign

Example Sentences

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They expect us to “consider the source of their ideas, or the cultural influences upon them, which are often malign and give them perverse incentives to acquire the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ with which they live.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Dictators, autocrats and other malign actors strategically use humor as a type of diminutive to minimize their real intent and to distract the public and media.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

In this case, the risks of re-traumatization or other malign mental health impacts would be much higher.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

"The malicious and malign intent is really sinister," the officer said.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

As if a peculiar and malign abstractness pervaded their mental processes.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick