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
O that they did but know my heart!—It shall sooner burst, than voluntarily, uncompelled, undriven, dictate a measure that shall cast a slur either upon them, or upon my sex.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel
Streckmann has cast a slur upon her conduct and old Bernd won't suffer that!
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II by Hauptmann, Gerhart
But the decision of the Court cast a slur on his name, and on that of his second wife.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
It was of course not the purpose of Binet to cast a slur upon the good sense and judgment of teachers.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
