Difference between Harmful and Malign

HARMFUL vs MALIGN: ADJECTIVE

Evil or harmful in nature or influence
Having or exerting a malignant influence
Evil or harmful in nature or effect.
Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure.
Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
Malevolent.
Intending or threatening harm or ill will; malevolent.

To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about (someone).
To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.

To treat with extreme enmity; injure maliciously.
To speak evil of; traduce; defame; vilify.
Synonyms Defame, Calumniate, etc. See asperse.
Synonyms See list under malignant.
Malignant.
In astrology, having an evil influence.
Unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; likely to do or cause great harm: as, the malign influence of a designing knave.
Having a very evil disposition toward others; harboring violent hatred or enmity; malicious.
To entertain malice.

Disadvantageous, Insidious, Negative, Hurtful, Prejudicial, Degrading, Unsafe, Pernicious, Noxious, Counterproductive, Dangerous, Damaging, Deleterious, Injurious, Detrimental

Vilify, Smear, Belittle, Defame, Discredit, Drag through the mud, Harmful, Malefic, Malignant, Maleficent, Badmouth, Injurious, Evil, Malevolent, Traduce

Disadvantageous, Insidious, Negative, Hurtful, Prejudicial, Degrading, Unsafe, Pernicious, Noxious, Counterproductive, Dangerous, Damaging, Deleterious, Injurious, Detrimental

Sinister, Slander, Vilify, Smear, Belittle, Discredit, Harmful, Malefic, Malignant, Maleficent, Badmouth, Injurious, Evil, Malevolent, Traduce

Shampoo, conditioner, and soaps free of harmful packaging.
Compliance information cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Are genetically modified food products really that harmful?
Seed treated with substance harmful to vertebrate animals; color; label information; description of treated seed not harmful to vertebrate animals.
It is a commonplace of evidence law that a litigant is not entitled to exclude harmful evidence, but only unfairly harmful evidence.
It is untrue that the novel coronavirus grows and multiplies in sewers, and pouring harmful chemicals into sewers will have harmful effects.
We talk a lot about how harmful synthetic fragrances are, but there are other ingredients in conventional cleaning products that can be harmful.
Harmful Effects Pesticides can cause three types of harmful effects: acute effects.
Acts by a caregiver resulting in unnecessary, harmful or potentially harmful medical care to a child.
These records pertain to employees exposed to harmful toxic substances or harmful physical agents.

Casting Malign Gateway no longer drains player Int.
Mikovits comments regarding the malign psycopthic criminal, Dr.
Malign Neglect: Race, Crime and Punishment in America.
American citizens, their malign influence throughout the region.
But Christians can fight against such malign influences.
Russian malign activity targeted at our civil society.
Harvest do not wish to malign these men.
The OP shows a malign tendency in libertarianism?
Even education is subject to this malign influence.
HOA book; is not an attempt to malign HOA boards, is not an attempt to malign any HOA board members.