asperse

verb2

1. •
   To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).

   • a hand in San Marco's font / aspersed him with foul canal water — 2004
2. •
   To falsely or maliciously charge someone.

   • If any one had taxed him with the vice, he would have indignantly repelled the accusation, and conceived himself unworthily aspersed. — 1844