aspersive

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English

Etymology

From asperse +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

Adjective

aspersive (comparative more aspersive, superlative most aspersive)

  1. Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for aspersive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)