'In the very hour of his return almost--before the shoe upon his foot is dry--he asperses his father's memory to his mother!

For hee who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses The tempted with dishonour foul, suppos'd Not incorruptible of Faith, not prooff Against temptation: thou thy self with scorne And anger wouldst resent the offer'd wrong, Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then, If such affront I labour to avert From thee alone, which on us both at once The Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare, Or daring, first on mee th' assault shall light.

Crossing all the ethical and moral boundaries, the attempts to asperse , inculpate and defame the rivals are the tactics being use to soar the mercury of the political atmosphere.

Couched in terms of national security and lawfulness, the comments made by Trump associate Mexicans with crime and violence; as he switches linguistic codes, the foreign language (hombres) is used to vilify the 'other' and asperse moral condemnation on people of Mexican heritage.

Roe (2006), in a convincing manner, criticizes such studies, which asperse the image of civil law tradition.

Excepting the land-owning Varners, the denizens of the hamlet are universally poor and would likely be labeled as white trash themselves by outsiders, though that does not deter them from attempting to asperse those they deem inferior.

HJP lists 'blacken, paint black' as the verb's first mean ing, and 'slander, calumniate; denigrate, asperse , vilify' as the second.