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Ill-disposed vs Malign - What's the difference?

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Ill-disposed is a related term of malign.


As adjectives the difference between ill-disposed and malign

is that ill-disposed is not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic while malign is evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.

As a verb malign is

to make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.

ill-disposed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.
  • * 2009 , Patrick Malcolmson & Richard Myers, The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada , University of Toronto Press (2009), ISBN 9781442600478, page 61:
    • And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.
  • * 2011 , Garrett G. Fagan, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games , Cambridge University Press (2011), ISBN 9780521196161, page 252:
    • The crowd may generally have been ill-disposed toward arena performers, but that could change depending on what was going on at any given time.
  • * 2011 , Tony MacLachlan, We Spared Not the Capital of America: War Between Britain and the United States 1812-15 , AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 9781456781859, page 241:
    • As a man of Eastern Tennessee, he also felt ill-disposed to co-operate with the men from the west.

    malign

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.
  • malevolent.
  • * 1891 -
    • He was sure they [the stars] were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.
  • (oncology) malignant
    • a malign ulcer
    (Francis Bacon)

    Related terms

    * malignant

    Antonyms

    * benign

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
  • * South
    • To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.
  • (archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.
  • * Spenser
    • 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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