Word Meanings - ASPERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: ASPERSION

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASPERSION)

• Calumny
• Slander
• defamation
• detraction
• libel
• traducement
• backbiting
• opprobrium
• aspersion

Related words: (words related to ASPERSION)

• OPPROBRIUM
  Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• SLANDER
  Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
• LIBELLEE
  The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.
• LIBELANT
  One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. Cranch.
• BACKBITER
  One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
• BACKBITING
  Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.
• LIBELLULID
  A dragon fly.
• SLANDERER
  One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
• LIBEL
  A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law. Note: The term, in a more
• LIBELIST
  A libeler.
• DEFAMATION
  Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion. Note: In modern usage, written defamation bears the title
• BACKBITE
  To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully ; to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.
• LIBELER
  One who libels. " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.
• LIBELLULOID
  Like or pertaining to the dragon fi
• DETRACTION
  1. A taking away or withdrawing. The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. Bacon. 2. The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another,
• LIBELOUS
  Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet. -- Li"bel*ous*ly, adv.
• ASPERSION
  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
• CALUMNY
  False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. "Infamouse calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• BELIBEL
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.
• DISSLANDER
  To slander. Legend of Dido.
• INTERLIBEL
  To libel mutually.
• DISSLANDEROUS
  Slanderous.