Ashvatthama said O basest of men, in spite of his speaking of the qualities that Arjuna is really endowed with, you, that understanding, have insulted my heroic maternal uncle through (sheer) malice.
अश्वत्थामोवाच यदर्जुनगुणांस्तथ्यान् कीर्तयानं नराधम। शूरं द्वेषात् सुदुर्बुद्धे त्वं भर्ल्सयसि मातुलम्॥