'Malign' in the Bible
Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God's high priest?"
to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.
and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.
But [do so] with courtesy and respect, having a good conscience, so that in [the things] in which you are slandered, the ones who malign your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.
In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;