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Meanings of aspersion in English

Portuguese
difamação
Catalan
calúmnia
Spanish
denigración

An abusive attack on a person's character or good name.

difamação
Portuguese
aspersão

The act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)

aspersão
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Examples for "sprinkling"
Examples for "sprinkling"
1
A sprinkling of UN soldiers will not solve the problems in Africa.
The Irish Times
2
It's possible it was practiced only by a devout sprinkling of farmers.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
3
In ten minutes the rain lightened, and soon it was barely sprinkling.
Lonesome dove
4
A light sprinkling of sand should help to make these surfaces safer.
The Irish Times
5
With perhaps just a sprinkling of hearsay thrown in for good measure.
BBC
Usage of aspersion in English
1
We're not trying to demonize the president or cast aspersion on him.
Ebony
2
We must all combat with force such an aspersion on our Legislature.
Studies and Essays: Censorship and Art
3
To the slight of the detractor or aspersion of the defamer:
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
4
The one called the others godless-theothers threw back the aspersion of bigotry.
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
5
What shocked him most was the implied aspersion of complicity on Mrs. Anthony.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
6
Carrie felt this to contain, in some way, an aspersion upon her ability.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
7
Which ain't no aspersion; I'm not so much for churching my own self.
Karen Memory
8
Now, her black treacheries have cast a foul aspersion on her whole sex.
The Adventures of Ulysses
9
My chief object, I candidly confess, is to clear myself from unjust aspersion.
Told After Supper
10
How comes it then that our nature labours under so bitter an aspersion?
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter...
11
Did she too, Rachel wondered, resent the aspersion of her integrity?
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
12
How dare you presume to cast aspersion at my brother? scornfully uttered Tom.
The Channings: A Story
13
Do I have to sue you and this bank for aspersion.
A singular man
14
He did not like that text; it seemed to cast an aspersion on himself.
Of Human Bondage
15
Still, residents around the plant remain furious with the aspersion.
The Guardian
16
The aspersion of the chronicler is more caustic than correct.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
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Aspersion through the time
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United Kingdom
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