as in smeared
to make untrue and harmful statements about
how dare you asperse the character of our dedicated pastor!
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Verb
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Grainy mustard smeared on a chunk of corned beef is delicious too.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Mar. 2026 -
Cops called to the scene found blood smeared on the stairwell from the third floor to the second, and more blood smeared on the walls in the second-floor hallway.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2026
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At one point in his teenage years, Diaz was publicly humiliated by the football team who forcefully shaved his curly hair.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Walz and Ellison were humiliated and could not account for their blundering.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
7 Mar. 2026
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Even the scenes in the endlessly maligned New York City (played at least partially by Fort Worth, Texas) look beautiful, undermining the nightmarish declarations of Sheridan’s scripts.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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Yeezy representative Milo Yiannopoulos maligned him and our firm in the press.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Radcliffe plays Arthur, a documentary filmmaker hired by Morgan’s disgraced former football player, Reggie, to make a The Last Dance–style documentary and facilitate Reggie’s comeback.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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The war is already disgraced by a monumental tragedy at the outset.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Aspersed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aspersed. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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