Synonyms of the word aspersion


ASPERSIONATTACK - BAPTISM - CALUMNY - DEFAMATION - DENIGRATION - DEPRECIATION - DEROGATION - DISPARAGEMENT - SLANDER - SLUR - SPRINKLING

aspersion

  • n. An attack on somebody's reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon.
  • n. (obsolete) A sprinkling of holy water.

attack

  • n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
  • n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
  • n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
  • n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
  • n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
  • n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
  • n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
  • n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
  • n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
  • n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
  • v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
  • v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
  • v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
  • v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

baptism

  • n. A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving…
  • n. A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.

calumny

  • n. A falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another.
  • n. False charges brought about to tarnish another's reputation or standing.

defamation

  • n. The act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of…

denigration

  • n. The act of making black; a blackening or defamation.
  • n. An unfair criticism.

depreciation

  • n. The state of being depreciated.
  • n. The decline in value of assets.
  • n. (accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which…

derogation

  • n. An act which belittles; disparagement.
  • n. (law) The act of derogating; the temporary or partial nullification of a law.

disparagement

  • n. The act of disparaging, of belittling.

slander

  • n. A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to…
  • v. To utter a slanderous statement; baselessly speak ill of.

slur

  • n. An insult or slight.
  • n. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
  • n. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused…
  • n. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
  • n. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
  • v. To insult or slight.
  • v. To run together; to articulate poorly.
  • v. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
  • v. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
  • v. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
  • v. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
  • v. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

sprinkling

  • v. present participle of sprinkle.
  • n. The action of the verb to sprinkle.
  • n. A small amount of (some liquid, powder or other fine substance) that is sprinkled on to something.
  • n. A light shower of rain.

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