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Definition of Aspersive
1. a. Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous.
Definition of Aspersive
1. Adjective. Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aspersive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspersive
Literary usage of Aspersive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"307, 33 NW 503 (one may in good faith publish the truth concerning a public officer.
but if he states what is false or aspersive he is liable therefor, ..."
2. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1887)
"Now one may in good faith publish the truth concerning a public officer, but if
he states that which is false and aspersive, he is liable therefor, ..."
3. Salem Witchcraft: With an Account of Salem Village, and a History of by Charles Wentworth Upham (1867)
"This answer was considered as very aspersive in its bearing upon the witnesses,
and she was charged with having called them murderers. ..."
4. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"aspersive gossip respecting other philosophers, especially respecting tho chiefs
of other schools, seems to have formed a favorite source of entertainment ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1892)
"We are of the opinion that the occasion will not of itself excuse an aspersive
attack upon the character and motives of the officer; and that to be excused, ..."
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