Entry: aspersion (n.)
In context: "...it's not the administration's immediate concern to point the levelling finger of blame or aspersion just yet or right now."
Definition: The action of casting damaging imputations, false and injurious charges, or unjust insinuations; calumniation, defamation.
Other:
SNOOT score: 3
Page: 401
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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