OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27278

aspersion

Meanings (ES + gloss)
calumnia • desdoro
An attack on somebody's reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon….
Even the comfort of the bottle might conceivably fail him in this supreme crisis. At such an age nothing but a halter could cure the pangs of an unquenchable passion. And, besides,…
No criminality can be infered or punishment inflicted, but for writing, printing, uttering, or publishing false, scandalous and malicious aspersions against the government.
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