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asperse

/uh-spurs/US // əˈspɜrs //UK // (əˈspɜːs) //

渴望,渴望的,渴望着,渴望得到

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    as·persed, as·pers·ing.

    • : to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
    • : to sprinkle; bespatter.

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Examples

  • I don't wish to asperse the fellow, but he does have a background as a Republican staffer and operative.

  • As for the company at the Wells, he would challenge every man at Epsom, if necessary, if he should dare to asperse his bravery.

  • We were not long in finding who it was that had been so base as to asperse the character of a family so harmless as ours.

  • Everything that rancour, low wit, and deplorable ignorance could conceive to asperse my government, was put in execution.

  • Superior excellence is the general mark for calumny; and envy is usually led to asperse what it cannot imitate.

  • Wait until your honest Evan comes back before you venture to asperse his lordship's deputy.'