kindly vs malign

kindly

adj
  • Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic. 

adv
  • Kind of, somewhat. 

  • In a kind manner, out of kindness. 

  • In a favourable way. 

  • With kind acceptance; used with take. 

  • Used to make a polite request: please. 

malign

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

  • Malevolent. 

  • Malignant. 

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

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