Reverse Dictionary: MALIGN

ADJECTIVES
► DUMPED ON maligned; abused → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► BAD MOUTH disparaging remarks; a maligning → 1960 US sl.
► FELLNESS fierceness, harshness, savagery; cruelty; malignity; also, sternness, severity → c1410 obs.
► MALIGNATION a maligning or slandering → 1836

NOUNS – PERSON
► BADMOUTH one who disparages or maligns → 1967 US sl.
► BADMOUTHER one who disparages or maligns → 1967 US sl.

VERBS
► BADMOUTH to malign; to disparage → 1941 Amer. sl.
► BAD-RAP to criticize unjustly; to malign → 1967 Amer. sl.
► BEWRAY to accuse, to malign, to speak evil of → c1330 obs.
► DEAL DIRT ► DEAL IN DIRT to gossip; to malign → 1970s African-American sl.
► GIVE GREEN RATS to malign, to slander, to backbite → 19C sl.
► LACK to dispraise, to slight, to undervalue; to malign, to calumniate → 1715 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MALIGNIFY to render malign → 1613
► MEAN-MOUTH to malign; to scold; to insult; to give a tongue-lashing to →  c1960 Amer. dial.
► MISCALL to abuse, to call names, to rail at, to speak evil of; to scold; to malign, to misrepresent → 1660 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
► PUT THE BAD MOUTH ON to disparage; to malign → 1968 US sl.
► SAY BLACK IS THE WHITE OF ONE’S EYE to speak ill of one → 1843 Sc.  obs.
► SCANDALIZE to slander, to malign, to defame, to ridicule → 1844
► TALK STINK to malign someone or something → 1981 US teen sl.