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
Does the author wish to cast a slur on the Darwinian theory?
From Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists by Ashmun, Margaret
One cannot convey food and drink to one's room in a strange house without, if detected, seeming to cast a slur on the table of the host.
From Something New by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Somebody remembered thet Greaves had cast a slur on your good name, Ellen.
From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane
The moral effect of this division among the magistrates was unquestionably to cast a slur on the reputation of Widow Fontaine.
From Jezebel's Daughter by Collins, Wilkie
