cast a slur
Example Sentences
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Sensitive Egyptian government archeologists had been afraid it would cast a slur on their efficiency, as they had felt when Carter and Carnarvon entered Luxor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except because the writer is eager to depreciate the value of orthodoxy of belief, and to cast a slur on doctrinal standards generally,—it is hard to see why he should write thus.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William
Vernon replied that he had no right to this, and that as it would seem to cast a slur upon their honesty he objected to it being done.
From State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social by Various
On the contrary, advice, however excellent, which cast a slur on their habits would be the surest means of rousing both their anger and their opposition.
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
He challenged the most noted duelist of the southwest, because he dared to cast a slur upon Jackson's wife.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
