How To Use Aspersion In A Sentence

  • Then up and spak 'the Duke, and flyted on his cook, I regard it as a sensible aspersion, That I would sup ava', an 'satiate my maw, With the bluid of ony clan of my aversion. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
  • They were roundly subjected to insults, smutty comments and had a multitude of aspersions cast about their manhood for the duration of their walk around the town.
  • Then again, now that I'm spending my days obsessing about a man I've more or less invented, I'm hardly one to cast aspersions on other people's productivity.
  • in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion
  • aspersions" it cast upon them, and begged that such might be "forborne for the future. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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  • asked Hunter, resenting the aspersions that Yoller was casting on his culture and his way of life. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
  • But they also cast aspersions on women who choose prostitution as a profession, and did not mention the men.
  • It irritates me that so many people are not even giving the young woman the benefit of the doubt, and are casting aspersions on her character and impugning her credibility, based on no, or the very flimsiest of, evidence.
  • Aspersions were also cast over his longevity at the highest level of the game.
  • My sincere apologies if you feel this casts aspersions upon your grandfather, and in charity I must add that he was a child of his unreflectingly materialist age.
  • How dare you cast aspersions on my wife's character!
  • I don't permit you to cast aspersions on my friend.
  • Nor have I any intention of casting aspersions against whichever 20 writers make the list in January.
  • On the contrary, I made such efforts to welcome the shower of dirty water, that at the end of half an hour I had taken quite a fancy to this novel kind of aspersion, and I resolved to come as often as I could to the happy spot where such treasures were freely bestowed. Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
  • Thought it cast some kind of aspersion on dear Eric's clinical judgement, I suppose. She Closed Her Eyes
  • Now, I do find it interesting that while you fling profanity and cast aspersions, that is your defense, yet, you cannot answer some simple question yourself, which shows a dishonesty in your method of argumentation. Hertzberg: Lyndon Who? | Jewschool
  • Then again, now that I'm spending my days obsessing about a man I've more or less invented, I'm hardly one to cast aspersions on other people's productivity.
  • He said there was an increasing tendency among some people to cast aspersions on the board when they didn't get the decision they wanted.
  • ‘I don't think we should cast aspersions on the business people’ he stated.
  • The South German cannot endure the North German, the Englishman casts every kind of aspersion upon the Scot, the Spaniard despises the Portuguese. Matt Cooper: Clinton, Obama and the Narcissism of Small Differences
  • Before I could finish casting unwarranted aspersions on all fourteen of my fellow jurors, I was distracted by the actual oath.
  • This is not the first time that a representative of The Netherlands - that distinguished nation of cycling polyglots - has cast aspersions on our linguistic abilities.
  • If that is indeed the case, I withdraw the aspersions I cast on his spelling.
  • These days, between posting his piquant views on the latest toonery, he rails against the aspersions still being spittled on the medium.
  • They were aware of French critics who cast aspersions on the Eiffel Tower as overly influenced by raw, unaesthetic American technology.
  • This kind of aspersion on a serious and honorable scholar who scrupulously abstained from imposing his personal views on the conference is no better than political name-calling. Multiple Simultaneous Submissions
  • `With no aspersions, can we start with you, only because you happen to be here. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
  • You can't cast aspersions on someone just because they're wearing a cape.
  • Criticism of a verdict which casts aspersions on the integrity of jurors may, of course, attract libel actions on that score.
  • I protest in the name of my countrywomen against the aspersion which is cast upon them by those who say that woman is not fit to hold office or discharge public trusts. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
  • While stressing that he was not ‘casting aspersions on anyone’, he called for an external examination of the matter.
  • They don't know what's happened, so all they're doing is speculating and in doing so they've been casting aspersions on a whole industry.
  • I said candidly that I could hardly cast aspersions on his choices since my own reclusive tendencies are strong.
  • The indignant theorist casts aspersions on their methods, inserts a non sequitur regarding its effects and explains how this is frightfully unfair for the "little guy".
  • Merely to characterize as ungenerous this aspersion upon the courage of such men as then served under Hooker, savors of error on the side of leniency. The Campaign of Chancellorsville
  • It is stupid to cast aspersions on either the intelligence of the electorate or the validity of the verdict.
  • For in no way can their '' aspersion '' be considered baptism. Orrologion
  • It must be read in context of the earlier exchange and the judge's aspersions on her integrity.
  • I don't permit to cast aspersions on my friend.
  • Another implication of the artisanal loaf is the aspersion it casts upon systematic production baking.
  • This, I hasten to add, is not to cast any aspersion over the good intentions of either company, rather, it reflects what tends to happen generally in a market concentrated on a small number of suppliers.
  • I strongly resent such unwarranted aspersions.
  • Heparin will biologically reread aspersions that have almost formed, but it may capitalize the poles from fizzing hotter and showering freer serotoninergic problems. Wii-volution
  • How dare you cast aspersions on my wife's character!
  • Criticism of a verdict which casts aspersions on the integrity of jurors may, of course, attract libel actions on that score.
  • Crude and tasteless, the film showed no let-up of violence against women and cast aspersions on the morals of working women.
  • Physicians were astounded to note that in a 'talking-head' slot on the BBC Today programme this morning, Mr Robinson appeared to have grown a pair of testicles, enabling him to cast aspersions on the comments made on the Programme by Ed Balls MP. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Ignatieff argued that Carroll can't remain ostensibly in charge of rebuilding and unifying the party after publicly casting aspersions on the loyalty of erstwhile leadership competitors. Archive 2007-05-01
  • I don't permit you to cast aspersions on my friend.
  • But the botanist that is desirous of wiping off this aspersion should be by no means content with a list of names; he should study plants philosophically, should investigate the laws of vegetation, should examine the powers and virtues of efficacious herbs, should promote their cultivation; and graft the gardener, the planter, and the husbandman, on the phytologist. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
  • But the company said it was no longer taking bets on the new manager to prevent "aspersions" being cast. Undefined
  • Their central theme is that he betrayed his band of brothers and cast aspersions on every battle-hardened American soldier.
  • I don't permit to cast aspersions on my friend.
  • It is so easy to cast aspersions on someone else.
  • Criticism of a verdict which casts aspersions on the integrity of jurors may, of course, attract libel actions on that score.
  • He said it was unacceptable and outrageous that his integrity had been questioned and aspersions cast on his character.
  • It may occur to some hypercritical person to suggest that the English language has frequently been murdered in my den, and that it is its horrid corse which is playing havoc at my home, crying out to heaven and flaunting its bloody wounds in the face of my conscience, but I can pass such an aspersion as that by with contemptuous silence, for even if it were true it could not be set down as wilful assassination on my part, since no sane person who needs a language as much as I do would ever in cold blood kill any one of the many that lie about us. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
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  • How dare you cast aspersions on my wife's character!
  • Now, I'm not about to cast aspersions upon those who swung early - or late - deals with the prosecutor to avoid jail.
  • Equally troubling has been "professional plaintiffs' class action lawyers'" ability to have the judiciary cast aspersions on objectors' counsel for engaging in a litigation/business strategy not dissimilar from the litigation/business strategy of "professional plaintiffs' class action lawyers. Lawrence W. Schonbrun: Wikipedia Wars
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  • When Mark Penn went on Hardball, purportedly to disown Shaheen’s aspersions, he instead sharpened them by using the word cocaine on air. Big Girls Don’t Cry
  • He also defended himself against Journal editor-in-chief Robert Thomson's initial statement that he cast "aspersions" on the Journal and its reporters. Bill Keller Responds to the Journal's Latest Accusation
  • Criticism of a verdict which casts aspersions on the integrity of jurors may, of course, attract libel actions on that score.
  • When I admitted the truth, the Collie laughed uproariously for what I thought was an unnecessarily long time, then cast aspersions on my parents.
  • Fair enough, it is upsetting when people who don't know any better rush to cast aspersions on a band they aren't even in, but that's the nature of art.
  • Crude and tasteless, the film showed no let-up of violence against women and cast aspersions on the morals of working women.
  • `I hope you don't think I'm casting aspersions, but you've invited some extremely undesirable playmates along tonight. MUSIC FOR BOYS
  • Many who post do indeed cast aspersions on various public figures. Will you be camped out at your local bookstore for your copy of “Going Rogue?” « Dating Jesus
  • Jupiter, to wipe off this aspersion, declared another lottery, for mortals singly and exclusively of the gods.
  • I don't permit to cast aspersions on my friend.
  • Reading out excerpts from The Girls to my wife, I found that the same aspersion annoyed her much less as a sententia — “When one goes out with a woman, it does not matter whether a thing is good or bad, but only that it should cost a great deal of money” — than as an aside: “We all know how expensive women are.” Monster of Marriage

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