cast aspersions
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
- (idiomatic) To make damaging or spiteful remarks.
- Don't cast aspersions on me, or on my patriotism.
- 1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes[1]:
- “You are casting aspersions,” remonstrated Peter Ivanovitch, “which as far as you are concerned—” “No!” Razumov interrupted without heat. “Indeed, I don’t want to cast aspersions, but it’s just as well to have no illusions.” Peter Ivanovitch gave him an inscrutable glance of his dark spectacles, accompanied by a faint smile. “The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one,” he said, in a very friendly tone.
Translations
make damaging or spiteful remarks
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