Crossword-Solution: ASPERSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aspersion | n. | A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. |
| Aspersion | n. | The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “ASPERSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of sprinkling water in baptism | 1 answer |
| Defaming remark | 1 answer |
| HOLY water sprinkling | 1 answer |
| Slanderous insinuation | 1 answer |
| muckraking | 2 answers |
| Damaging remark | 2 answers |
| mudslinging | 3 answers |
| DISPARAGING remark | 5 answers |
| It may be cast | 6 answers |
| Something to cast | 7 answers |
| cattiness | 8 answers |
| sprinkling | 9 answers |
| CAST A SLUR ON | 10 answers |
| A SLANDEROUS ACCUSATION | 10 answers |
| AN ABUSIVE ATTACK ON A PERSON'S CHARACTER OR GOOD NAME | 11 answers |
| denigration | 12 answers |
| ANIMADVERSION | 15 answers |
| Insinuation | 16 answers |
| disparagement | 17 answers |
| immersion | 18 answers |
| detraction | 27 answers |
| Calumny | 30 answers |
| Libel | 31 answers |
| Defamation | 33 answers |
| Slander | 41 answers |
| Barb | 46 answers |
| Backbiting | 48 answers |
| vituperation | 48 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| Malediction | 62 answers |
| CALL names | 64 answers |
| slur | 64 answers |
| Scandal | 64 answers |
| Affront | 77 answers |
| Abuse | 85 answers |
| Gossip | 97 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASPERSION (5)
The water of the canal stood at about the drinking temperature of tea; and under this cold aspersion, the surface was covered with steam.
You have done and endured more than any living statesman for the advantage of your fellow-citizens, so that I will not cast at you the aspersion of class-blindness.
She is as strong as a horse—and we’ll make her work like a horse.” “You will excuse me for reminding you, Sir Percival, that if the servants go to-morrow they must have a month’s wages in lieu of a month’s warning.” “Let them! A month’s wages saves a month’s waste and gluttony in the servants’ hall.” This last remark conveyed an aspersion of the most offensive kind on my management.
There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness, and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful.
How comes it then that our nature labours under so bitter an aspersion? We have been described as cunning, malicious and treacherous.
Quotes with ASPERSION (1)
Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1974–2009).