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Stinky The Clown

(67,798 posts) Wed Sep 5, 2018, 08:46 PM Sep 2018

"Malign acts"

How many of you use malign as an adjective? Not many, I'll bet. It is an unusual word form in US English.

But it is much more common in European English. Not everyday common. But more widespread than hare.

It was in the Op-Ed.

Niki Haley communes with such speakers on a daily basis.

Hey . . . . its as good a guess as anyone's.

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"Malign acts" (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Sep 2018 OP

I'm thinking it was a lawyer. TomSlick Sep 2018 #1

TomSlick

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1. I'm thinking it was a lawyer.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 10:25 PM

Sep 2018

Lawyers use malign as an adjective. Further, lawyers use "lodestar" in reference to the Lodestar Method of setting court ordered attorney's fees.

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