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ASPERSE, V.t. Maliciously To Ascribe To Another Vicious Actions Which One Has Not Had The Temptation And Opportunity To Commit.
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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which
one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime.
To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude....
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of anothe
from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell....
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of anothe
from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell....
Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...