Usually means: Speaks harmful untruths about someone.
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  1. maligns: Merriam-Webster
  2. maligns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. maligns: Vocabulary.com
  4. maligns: Wordnik
  5. maligns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. maligns: Wiktionary
  7. maligns: Dictionary.com
  8. maligns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. maligns: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. maligns: Legal dictionary

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  1. maligns: Medical dictionary

(Note: See malign as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (malign)

adjective:  Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
adjective:  Malevolent.
adjective:  (oncology) Malignant.
verb:  (transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.
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