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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "aspersion" in a sentence

    aspersion example sentences

    aspersion


    1. He resented the aspersion upon his manhood that Peta’s cuckolding him entailed; the laughter and innuendo he’d have to put up with from his friends and neighbors, but really, who cared? What the hell could he do about it anyway? And if you can’t do anything, then why get all excited about it?


    2. But I could not take that aspersion lying down


    3. Gould said in a tone as if she were repelling an undeserved aspersion


    4. The stupidest mind may invent a rankling phrase or brand the innocent with a cruel aspersion


    5. Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business


    6. It is scarcely possible to comprise, within the same compass, more of the spirit of whatever is bitter in invective, and humiliating in aspersion


    7. His character has been marked, both as the subject of admiration by his friends, and of aspersion and suspicion by his enemies


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    Synonyms for "aspersion"

    aspersion sprinkling calumny defamation denigration slander slur

    "aspersion" definitions

    a disparaging remark


    an abusive attack on a person's character or good name


    the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)