aspersion

Example Sentences

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That will be no mean feat in a district where she is already facing the “carpetbagger” aspersion.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2024

Don’t restrict my freedom to ask questions that are perfectly legitimate, that cast no aspersion unless you choose to take them that way.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2018

Schumer instead tempered the aspersion directed at his Senate counterpart as a “blatant falsehood.”

From Fox News • Oct. 13, 2018

No matter, it is fully understandable that Williams would react to the allusion of the data as aspersion against her accomplishments.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2018

The chief ignored Trengove’s aspersion and calmly remarked to the bench, “My Lord, I think the Crown is running wild.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela