Thesaurus: aspersion

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1. n. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.
2. n. The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.
3. n. a disparaging remark
4. n. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
5. n. the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
6. 1. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor. 2. The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.
7. n:100 n. a disparaging remark n. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name n. the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)