What's the difference between aspersion and spatter?

Aspersion


Definition:

  • (n.) A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.
  • (n.) The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He could face a charge if it is viewed that he is casting aspersions about match officials' fairness.
  • (2) Until I answer that question satisfactorily, I will not cast aspersions on others."
  • (3) And anything casting aspersions on China's rulers, history, military, human rights record – or any other aspect of the country – is out of the question .
  • (4) Governor Rick Perry said in a statement: This end run around the supreme court undermines the will of the people of Texas, and casts unfair aspersions on our state's common-sense efforts to preserve the integrity of our elections process.
  • (5) For aspersions to be cast about her alleged financial mismanagement and bullying shows a lack of respect to a woman who has committed almost 20 years to developing Kids Company.
  • (6) People are always going to cast aspersions on people regardless of their activities if they’re in a place under a government that’s unpopular.
  • (7) What do you have in common with all these very rich people?” Cameron replied: “The aspersion you are trying to cast is completely ridiculous.” He conceded that he had not asked Green about possible tax avoidance in HSBC’s Swiss branch at the time of his appointment.
  • (8) Duncan said she was not casting aspersions on the standard of the designs by Heatherwick.
  • (9) Her dogged pursuit of the then tax commissioner, Trevor Boucher, during a Senate committee, including vague aspersions on his new role as ambassador to the OECD, led to his resignation in 1993.
  • (10) "A contemptuous aspersion against a senior military officer"!
  • (11) I know some people (men) will feel obliged to cast aspersions on my looks – believe me, I've heard it all before – but I won't apologise for the truth.
  • (12) But he wasn't scraping the bottom of the anecdotal barrel for Grandma Dunham's subtle aspersions, he was actually making a representative claim: much as Reverend Wright is an appropriate spokesman for a certain strain of black racism, Madelyn Dunham is the face for that of most whites.
  • (13) You could practically hear Bashir crisply and obediently saluting as he accused Hardin of the crime of disrespect to a general; here is just some of what he shouted, literally, each time Hardin tried to move on: "I'm sorry, I cannot allow you to cast such a contemptuous aspersion against a senior military officer by demeaning his service to this country.
  • (14) It is wasteful to cast aspersions on Jessie J's desires and quantify her sexuality into a sort of swingometer.
  • (15) Setting aside the aspersions this casts on one of the most challenging jobs in our society, a Coalition government of all governments knows that money matters, especially in education.
  • (16) Beijing’s aspersions about sinister western forces aside, no one group is directing this occupation.
  • (17) Anyway, having cast aspersions over a tragic death, doubted a coroner and insulted a grieving mother, Moir's piece builds to its climax: "Another real sadness about Gately's death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.
  • (18) Claiming to have renewed his faith in Islam, he said he did not agree with any character in The Satanic Verses who "casts aspersions... upon the authenticity of the holy Qur'an, or who rejects the divinity of Allah".
  • (19) are presumably confident enough to survive this mild aspersion without resort to racial violence.
  • (20) In its statement to the media after the allegations were published, the Cain campaign said Cain was being "targeted by liberals simply because they disagree with his politics": Dredging up thinly sourced allegations stemming from Mr Cain's tenure as the chief executive officer at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, political trade press are now casting aspersions on his character and spreading rumours that never stood up to the facts.

Spatter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.
  • (v. t.) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
  • (v. i.) To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tarantino’s blood-spattered, race-themed western was in fact his biggest hit, taking $425m worldwide.
  • (2) Inside, the white pillars in the big empty atrium were spattered with blood, and splintered wood and broken chairs hinted at the violence of the three-hour battle.
  • (3) In the early spring, Atlantic rollers pound the beach while gulls strut in rain-spattered tidal pools.
  • (4) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
  • (5) An experiment at the same Moscow facility in 1999 descended into chaos when a Russian captain forced a kiss on a female Canadian crew member, and two other Russians got drunk and ended up in a fist fight that left blood spattered over the capsule walls.
  • (6) In Muslim areas, the flag appeared in leaflets in a blood-spattered montage of Tony Blair and George Bush and troops in Iraq, while underneath it she played to religious homophobia by claiming that Labour was allowing children to be propositioned for homosexual relationships.
  • (7) However, the team still found blood from the attack spattered on some walls and ceilings and also brought back bullet casings that matched weapons Bales was reported to have carried, and fabric that matched a blanket prosecutors say he wore as a cape.
  • (8) The receipts are being published not merely too late, but also after being liberally spattered with a black marker pen in a way that covers up all the worst crimes.
  • (9) A central square was left spattered with blood after baton-wielding police dispersed crowds.
  • (10) As a shell blasted through the wall, showering occupants with shrapnel and spattering blood on walls and floors, Amna Zantit, 31, scrambled to gather up her three terrified infants in a panicked bid for the relative safety of the schoolyard.
  • (11) "Given that it's usually around 45-50 minutes long, I always presumed you waxed lyrical for many hours talking about everything from Boney M to punching wildlife, with a spattering of football in between, and producer Ben chopped it all down to 45 mintues of football chat.
  • (12) Sign up for our film masterclasses Xan Brooks tentatively enters through cinema's blood-spattered back door as he looks for some truly terrifying thrils in cinema's tawdriest genre Photograph: guardian.co.uk Join us to explore the wonder of cinematography at our second Guardian film masterclass .
  • (13) After the press conference, St Louis County police department shared pictures of the officer’s blood-spattered face mask.
  • (14) Its crew found Baby P already stiff and blue in his blood-spattered cot.
  • (15) (I find it useful to cover the pot with an inexpensive spatter screen to catch any spattering chilli.)
  • (16) • A defence witness called to dispute the state’s version of how Steenkamp was killed was labelled “irresponsible” by Nel, who pointed out that Roger Dixon was not trained in ballistics, light, sound or blood spatter evidence .
  • (17) As to Scarfe's cartoon specifically, it seems to me almost identical to every other blood-spattered pictorial lament for man's inhumanity to man he's knocked out over the past 40 years.
  • (18) It was early March and snow was still spattered on the leaf mould between the firs and larches.
  • (19) The prosecutor also said blood spatter evidence indicated that the athlete's statement about the location of a duvet in the bedroom was false.
  • (20) Pro-government media quickly published graphic pictures of the blood-spattered bodies of the five dead Egyptians – Tarek Saad Abdel Fattah, 52; his son Saad Tarek Saad, 26; his son-in-law Salah Ali Sayed, 40; Mostafa Bakr, 60; and Farouk.