cast aspersionsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

cast aspersions (third-person singular simple present casts aspersions, present participle casting aspersions, simple past and past participle cast aspersions)

1. (idiomatic) To make damaging or spiteful remarks.

   Don't cast aspersions on me, or on my patriotism.

   • 1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes‎:

     “You are casting aspersions,” remonstrated Peter Ivanovitch, “which as far as you are concerned—” “No!” Razumov interrupted without heat. “Indeed, I don’t want to cast aspersions, but it’s just as well to have no illusions.” Peter Ivanovitch gave him an inscrutable glance of his dark spectacles, accompanied by a faint smile. “The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one,” he said, in a very friendly tone.

   • 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 2, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

     Dismissing stability as the refusal to innovate (or rather cut costs), business leaders cast aspersions on the steadying tenets of the first half of the twentieth century, including social provisions and job security.

   • 2024 October 9, Goh Yan Han, “Death penalty exhibition rejected over ‘false and one-sided’ info, possible contempt of court: IMDA”, in The Straits Times‎:

     However, the exhibition was refused classification as it “contains materials that cast aspersions on the integrity of, and undermine public trust and confidence in public institutions involved in the administration of justice”.