Brewer's: Aspersions

properly means “sprinklings” or “scatterings.” Its present meaning is base insinuations or slanders.

No sweet aspersion [rain ] shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow.

I defy all the world to cast a just aspersion on my character.

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