hurtful vs malign

hurtful

adj
  • Tending to impair or damage; injurious; occasioning loss or injury. 

  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

malign

adj
  • Malevolent. 

  • Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. 

  • Malignant. 

verb
  • To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. 

How often have the words hurtful and malign occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )