In a sentence
Six example sentences with aspersion, each labelled with its topic.
Her lawyer objected that the question was an aspersion rather than a fact the witness could answer.
Law
The debate turned when one candidate cast an aspersion on the other's record instead of answering about the budget.
Politics
A single aspersion in a trade magazine cost the supplier two contracts before the correction ran.
Business
The coach refused to cast an aspersion on the referee, saying only that the calls had gone one way.
Basketball
The rebuttal avoided any aspersion on the rival lab, disputing the data without questioning anyone's honesty.
Science
The critic's review carried an aspersion on the novelist's originality that she answered in her next preface.
Literature
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