aspersion

Example Sentences

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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

He excelled at the art of casting aspersion.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2017

The women suggest that Mr. Singer and others, acting on behalf of Mr. Cosby, did not simply deny the accusations but cast aspersion on them by attacking them personally and branding them liars.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2015

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