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cast aspersions

verb as in make disparaging charges against someone

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Second, they are a chance to cast aspersions on the legitimacy of the election and of Democrats themselves.

From Slate

Anwar said he rebuked the “incessant propaganda that we should cast aspersions and fear the dominance of China economically, militarily, technologically.”

His comments, made to reporters in Atlanta as he was attacking President Biden’s approach to Israel’s war in Gaza, marked the third time in the last month that Mr. Trump has cast aspersions on Democrat-supporting Jewish voters, a group that in the past he has accused of disloyalty.

What’s more, Willis’ response to the revelations possibly made it worse, using a church speech to claim victimhood and say that the charges were racially motivated when they were in fact standard, and then using court testimony to cast aspersions on opposing counsel and act as though she thought she were the judge in the case.

From Slate

Barred by the judge for three years from serving in top roles at any New York company, including portions of his own Trump Organization, Mr. Trump cast aspersions on the justice system and said he had been persecuted.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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