cast a slur on
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
Somebody remembered thet Greaves had cast a slur on your good name, Ellen.
From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane
He cannot mean that παρακολουθεῖν, because the Evangelist uses it only once, is suspicious; for that would be to cast a slur on S. Luke i.
From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William
Great men who followed the profession of letters, having nothing to fear from me, belauded me, not so much on account of my merits as to cast a slur on those of their rivals.
From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen
Hubert insulted me in his will, and cast a slur on my character by forbidding me to marry you.
From Red Money by Hume, Fergus
