- 1. n. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Source: opted
- 2. n. The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Source: opted
- 3. n. a disparaging remark Source: wordnet
- 4. n. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name Source: wordnet
- 5. n. the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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) Source: ecdict
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