asperse
verb (used with object)
to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
aspersive
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a word derived from
asperse.
Example Sentences
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There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press would not print them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course the aspersive attitude toward York was that of Mrs. Snograss reflected in Rochambeau.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills
A statement either more aspersive of its author’s own candor, or more indicative of his thralldom to prejudice, has rarely been made.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
Knowing her to be ignorant of this, I listened with more calmness to the aspersive remarks.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
