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Definition of aspersion in English: aspersionnoun əˈspəːʃ(ə)n usually aspersionsAn attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something. I don't think anyone is casting aspersions on you Example sentencesExamples - Their central theme is that he betrayed his band of brothers and cast aspersions on every battle-hardened American soldier.
- You can't cast aspersions on someone just because they're wearing a cape.
- It is so easy to cast aspersions on someone else.
- When I admitted the truth, the Collie laughed uproariously for what I thought was an unnecessarily long time, then cast aspersions on my parents.
- I said candidly that I could hardly cast aspersions on his choices since my own reclusive tendencies are strong.
- It is stupid to cast aspersions on either the intelligence of the electorate or the validity of the verdict.
- Crude and tasteless, the film showed no let-up of violence against women and cast aspersions on the morals of working women.
- It must be read in context of the earlier exchange and the judge's aspersions on her integrity.
- Now, I'm not about to cast aspersions upon those who swung early - or late - deals with the prosecutor to avoid jail.
- Before I could finish casting unwarranted aspersions on all fourteen of my fellow jurors, I was distracted by the actual oath.
- He said it was unacceptable and outrageous that his integrity had been questioned and aspersions cast on his character.
- If that is indeed the case, I withdraw the aspersions I cast on his spelling.
- Then again, now that I'm spending my days obsessing about a man I've more or less invented, I'm hardly one to cast aspersions on other people's productivity.
- They don't know what's happened, so all they're doing is speculating and in doing so they've been casting aspersions on a whole industry.
- Fair enough, it is upsetting when people who don't know any better rush to cast aspersions on a band they aren't even in, but that's the nature of art.
- They were roundly subjected to insults, smutty comments and had a multitude of aspersions cast about their manhood for the duration of their walk around the town.
- ‘I don't think we should cast aspersions on the business people’ he stated.
- These days, between posting his piquant views on the latest toonery, he rails against the aspersions still being spittled on the medium.
- While stressing that he was not ‘casting aspersions on anyone’, he called for an external examination of the matter.
- He said there was an increasing tendency among some people to cast aspersions on the board when they didn't get the decision they wanted.
Synonyms vilification, disparagement, denigration, defamation, defamation of character, abuse, vituperation, condemnation, criticism, censure, castigation, denunciation, flak, deprecation, opprobrium, obloquy, derogation, slander, revilement, reviling, calumny, calumniation, slurs, smears, execration, excoriation, lambasting, upbraiding, bad press, character assassination, attack, invective, libel, insults, slights, curses informal mud-slinging, bad-mouthing, tongue-lashing British informal stick, verbal, slagging off, slagging archaic contumely rare animadversion, objurgation vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult, slight, attack, speak badly of, speak ill of, speak evil of, pour scorn on, criticize, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, pillory, lambaste fulminate against, rail against, inveigh against, malign, slander, libel, conduct a smear campaign against, spread lies about, blacken the name/reputation of, sully the reputation of, give someone a bad name, bring into disrepute, discredit, stigmatize, traduce, calumniate, slur informal bad-mouth, do a hatchet job on, take to pieces, pull apart, throw mud at, drag through the mud, slate, have a go at, hit out at, jump on, lay into, tear into, knock, slam, pan, bash, hammer, roast, skewer, bad-mouth, throw brickbats at British informal rubbish, slag off North American informal pummel, dump on Australian/New Zealand informal bag, monster archaic contemn rare derogate, vituperate, asperse, vilipend
Origin Late Middle English (denoting the sprinkling of water, especially at baptism): from Latin aspersio(n-), from aspergere (see asperse). To engage in casting aspersions is almost literally mud-slinging. Aspersion originally meant ‘sprinkling water or other liquid on someone’, especially in baptism, and came from Latin spargere ‘to sprinkle’ (the root of disperse (Late Middle English) ‘scatter widely’, and intersperse (mid 16th century) ‘sprinkle between’). Sprinkling a person with water developed into the idea of spattering them with something less pleasant, such as mud or dung. This in turn led to the notion of soiling a person's reputation by making false and damaging insinuations against them. See also slur
Rhymes animadversion, assertion, aversion, bioconversion, Cistercian, coercion, conversion, desertion, disconcertion, dispersion, diversion, emersion, excursion, exertion, extroversion, immersion, incursion, insertion, interspersion, introversion, Persian, perversion, submersion, subversion, tertian, version Definition of aspersion in US English: aspersionnoun usually aspersionsAn attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something. I don't think anyone is casting aspersions on you Example sentencesExamples - Crude and tasteless, the film showed no let-up of violence against women and cast aspersions on the morals of working women.
- When I admitted the truth, the Collie laughed uproariously for what I thought was an unnecessarily long time, then cast aspersions on my parents.
- If that is indeed the case, I withdraw the aspersions I cast on his spelling.
- It is so easy to cast aspersions on someone else.
- These days, between posting his piquant views on the latest toonery, he rails against the aspersions still being spittled on the medium.
- He said there was an increasing tendency among some people to cast aspersions on the board when they didn't get the decision they wanted.
- Now, I'm not about to cast aspersions upon those who swung early - or late - deals with the prosecutor to avoid jail.
- He said it was unacceptable and outrageous that his integrity had been questioned and aspersions cast on his character.
- I said candidly that I could hardly cast aspersions on his choices since my own reclusive tendencies are strong.
- They were roundly subjected to insults, smutty comments and had a multitude of aspersions cast about their manhood for the duration of their walk around the town.
- Before I could finish casting unwarranted aspersions on all fourteen of my fellow jurors, I was distracted by the actual oath.
- While stressing that he was not ‘casting aspersions on anyone’, he called for an external examination of the matter.
- ‘I don't think we should cast aspersions on the business people’ he stated.
- Their central theme is that he betrayed his band of brothers and cast aspersions on every battle-hardened American soldier.
- It must be read in context of the earlier exchange and the judge's aspersions on her integrity.
- It is stupid to cast aspersions on either the intelligence of the electorate or the validity of the verdict.
- They don't know what's happened, so all they're doing is speculating and in doing so they've been casting aspersions on a whole industry.
- You can't cast aspersions on someone just because they're wearing a cape.
- Fair enough, it is upsetting when people who don't know any better rush to cast aspersions on a band they aren't even in, but that's the nature of art.
- Then again, now that I'm spending my days obsessing about a man I've more or less invented, I'm hardly one to cast aspersions on other people's productivity.
Synonyms vilification, disparagement, denigration, defamation, defamation of character, abuse, vituperation, condemnation, criticism, censure, castigation, denunciation, flak, deprecation, opprobrium, obloquy, derogation, slander, revilement, reviling, calumny, calumniation, slurs, smears, execration, excoriation, lambasting, upbraiding, bad press, character assassination, attack, invective, libel, insults, slights, curses vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult, slight, attack, speak badly of, speak ill of, speak evil of, pour scorn on, criticize, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, pillory, lambaste
Origin Late Middle English (denoting the sprinkling of water, especially at baptism): from Latin aspersio(n-), from aspergere (see asperse). |