Example sentences for: aspersions

How can you use “aspersions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the fact that McCain's integrity has been called into question made his aspersions against Bush's honesty look churlish.

  • Today's installment focuses on the aspersions Toobin casts on Michael Isikoff, whose reporting of the Flytrap scandal won a National Magazine Award for Newsweek .

  • Casting aspersions on them, as opposed to us, finds Spanish-speakers no exceptions to the rule.

  • You can follow its regular eruptions through his career, from Buchanan's 1972 memo to Richard Nixon suggesting that he link a primary opponent with "New York Jewish money," to the now infamous 1977 column I excavated some years ago from the archives of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which Buchanan offers qualified praise for Hitler, to dozens of subsequent utterances that mitigate fascism and cast aspersions on nonwhites.

  • By Saturday, the pundits were smelling smoke but decided that the press still hadn't "found the fire" (Evan Thomas, Inside Washington ). Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ) sensed an element of "Greek tragedy" to the story, although he didn't specify whether he was referring to Oedipus Rex or Antigone . Thomas and Jack Germond found it easier to cast aspersions on Clinton's partner in ...


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