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
Peter's quick answer seems to be prompted by zeal for his Master's honour, on which the question appears to him to cast a slur.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren
That he who held her so dear, who only asked to protect her from pain and ill, that he should be the one to cast a slur upon her!
From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley
I wouldn't have done it had he not cast a slur on your fair name, mother.
From The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle by Edward Stratemeyer
George soon learnt that he had been deceived, that people were scandalised at his appearing to cast a slur upon his mother, and that the opposition in the commons would move to include her name.
From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole
