aspersion
Example Sentences
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Though Smith’s actions cast no aspersion on the sisters, his win for playing their father was stained with apology rather than triumph and that’s too bad.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2022
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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.