aspersions

• “I told you—it's true I didn't mean to cast aspersions,” the harpooner said hastily. —  AHMM,Jan-Feb2006
• The Rev. Mr. Moor and his friend were severely reprimanded in open court, and recommended to make some pecuniary compensation to the prosecutor for the aspersions they had been instrumental in throwing upon his character. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• He said "If any of these unjust aspersions are cast anew upon me"--and I seemed to know as absolutely what he was going to say as if the whole thing were a play which I had seen rehearsed a score of times. —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
• "If these unjust aspersions are cast upon me, I shall shake them from me as the lion shakes the dew-drops from his mane." —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
• If he has upheld Laud under unjust aspersions, the last labour of his literary life was to vindicate the character of Hugh Peters. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)

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