To make a derogatory or highly critical remark, either fairly or, more often, unfairly. An older meaning of the verb “to asperse” is to sprinkle or scatter, and “aspersion” itself once meant a shower
or spray. The full phrase is newer, but we find the same meaning in Sheri- dan’s play, The Rivals (1775), in which Mrs. Malaprop complains bitterly of
“an attack upon my language! . . . an aspersion upon my parts of speech”
(3:3).
Three individuals have been apprehended in the case of the lithium pools,
according to the Prosecutor's Office.
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So far, three individuals have been apprehended in the investigation into
the industrial evaporation pools of Bolivian Lithium Deposits (YLB),
reported ...
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