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v. To spread false or damaging charges or insinuations against. See Synonyms at malign.

v. To sprinkle, especially with holy water.

v. To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).

v. To falsely or maliciously charge another.

v. To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

v. To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate

To besprinkle; scatter over.

To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; tarnish in point of reputation or good name; slander; calumniate.

Synonyms Asperse, Defame, Calumniate, Slander, Malign, Traduce, Libel, Vilify, decry, depreciate, disparage, slur, run down, lampoon, blacken. These words are all descriptive of attempts to injure reputation by false statements. They all apply primarily and chiefly to persons. There is often little or no difference between them. Asperse is, literally, to bespatter, as with mud or dirt; it sometimes implies injury to reputation by indirect insinuation. Defame is, literally, to lower the fame or repute of, to bring toward infamy, to make charges that are more open and weighty than aspersions. Calumniate, slander, and malign represent the most deliberate and deadly assaults upon reputation. The calumniator is most often the inventor of the falsehoods he circulates. The slanderer is less inventive and more secret, his work being generally behind the back of the injured person. The maligner is most mischievous, malicious, or malign in his motives. To traduce is to misrepresent, to show in an odious light. Libel and slander are the words most used in speaking of injury to reputation in its relation to the possible recovery of damages at law. To libel, therefore, often suggests the pecuniary loss by defamation; libel is strictly effected by publication, while slander is strictly by word of mouth. Vilify is, literally, to make one (seem) vile; it suggests a defamation of the coarser and more abusive sort. See decry.

v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

"So, after the first six trays full of wee folks had been sprinkled, one at a time, the Bishop decided to "asperse" them, that is, shake, from a mop or brush, the holy water, on a tray full of babies at one time."

aspersed    asperses    aspersing   

accuse    charge   

libel    drag through the mud    malign    assassinate    badmouth    traduce   

vilify    detract from    calumniate    defame    slander    sprinkle    disparage