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With this threat blazoned, the British note went on to asperse individually and by name five officials of the Soviet Government.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hereditary duties of the King's Champion are to "gird himself in complete armor," ride out upon a noble charger, fling down his gauntlet, offer to fight all "liars and traitors" who asperse King Edward.

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Stop, Ernest, you are beside yourself," said Mrs. Linwood, and the mounting color in her face deepened to crimson,—"you shall not thus asperse a good and guileless man.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

While few ventured to asperse the character of President Menocal himself, his administration was vilified as corrupt and inefficient.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

During the first nine months of 1923 there were: Births 584,458 Deaths 506,007 Birth rate excess 78,451 The Paris press aspersed U. S. lib erty.

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"Sciochezza di Napoli" retorts the dealer at Messina or Palermo, vindicating at once his own honour, which seems aspersed, and that of his Trinacrian associates.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

First, He hath aspersed that church in the point of promiscuous communicating.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Once more, all the old, worn-out charges were trumped up, including even that by which the Princess Margaret’s name had been so cruelly aspersed.

From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Emily Sarah Holt

Brooke is aspersed as a man of the meanest talents, insensible to the genius of Camden, rankling with envy at his fame, and correcting the “Britannia” out of mere spite.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

J. Without unfairly aspersing Homer Cummings, it can be said that the D. o.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had brought this suit against Le Journal of Paris for libelously aspersing his patriotism as an Alsatian.

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That the tale of Richard aspersing the chastity of his own mother is incredible; it appearing that he lived with her in perfect harmony, and lodged with her in her palace at that very time.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole

I have read with great pain the Lord Lieutenant's speech at Belfast, aspersing the country as disloyal and threatening them with greater tyranny.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall

He did not mind discrediting the Council, aspersing its most devoted members, so that he resented a trespass on his vanity.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary