cast a slur on
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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
The hateful means used to obtain an apparently good end have cast a slur on the reputation of more than one high-toned statesman.
From England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey
I now mention these things, not to cast a slur on San Martin, but for the opposite purpose of averting undue reproach, though my bitter enemy.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
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 John William Burgon
M. de Villiers, in his account of this transaction to the French government, avails himself of these passages in the capitulation to cast a slur on the conduct of Washington.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving
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