Richard Briers starred as Hector in the first three series of Monarch of the Glen from 2000 to 2002 (and as a guest in series 7 in 2005), a role which saw him return to the limelight. He contributed Sonnet 55 to the 2002 compilation album, When Love Speaks, which features famous actors and musicians interpreting Shakespeare's sonnets and play excerpts.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: malign (Verb). To make defamatory statements about someone or something. malign (Adjective). evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. malign (Adjective). malevolent. Origin: Via French from Latin malignus, from malus + genus. Compare benign.
malign If you malign someone, you badmouth them â just like the jilted girlfriend who tells the whole school her ex has bad breath and head lice. When you habitually malign people, you risk being described as a malign influence â in this case, malign is an adjective that describes a harmful or even evil person or thing. Whichever way you use the word, its connection to wickedness can be found in its Latin root, malignus, wicked or bad-natured, which combines male, or badly and -gnus, born.