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cast aspersions

cast aspersions verb: to make damaging or spiteful remarks.

Verb

cast aspersions (third-person singular simple present casts aspersions, present participle casting aspersions, simple past and past participle cast aspersions)

  1. (idiomatic) To make damaging or spiteful remarks.
    • Don't cast aspersions on me, or on my patriotism.
    • “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...1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

cast aspersions meaning in Malayalam and Persian

cast aspersions in Malayalam

on disparage, vilify, denigrate
അപവാദം പരത്തുക, അപവാദം പറയുക, അപകീർത്തിപ്പെടുത്തുക, അപവദിക്കുക, അപഖ്യാതി പറഞ്ഞുണ്ടാക്കുക, ദൂഷണം പറയുക

cast aspersions in Persian

make damaging or spiteful remarks
هتک حرمت

Examples of cast aspersions in a sentence

  • “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.1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes:
  • “To have the director of national intelligence cast aspersions upon the professionalism and public service of dedicated people, I just find basically offensive and wrong,” he said.2025 September 26, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, quoting Jake Sullivan, “Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S.”, in...

Forms of cast aspersions

third-person singular presentcasts aspersions
present participlecasting aspersions
past participlecast aspersions
pastcast aspersions

Questions about cast aspersions

What does cast aspersions mean?
Cast aspersions means to make damaging or spiteful remarks.
What is cast aspersions in Malayalam?
Cast aspersions in Malayalam is അപവാദം പരത്തുക, അപവാദം പറയുക, അപകീർത്തിപ്പെടുത്തുക. See Cast aspersions meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use cast aspersions in a sentence?
“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.
What part of speech is cast aspersions?
Cast aspersions is a verb.
What is the past tense of cast aspersions?
The past tense of cast aspersions is cast aspersions.

Words near cast aspersions in the dictionary

  1. cast accounts
  2. cast adrift
  3. cast anchor
  4. cast around
  5. cast aside
  6. cast aspersions
  7. cast away
  8. cast back
  9. cast caution to the wind
  10. cast dispersions
  11. cast down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cast aspersions (page history and authors); cast aspersions (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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