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
Except because the writer is eager to depreciate the value of orthodoxy of belief, and to cast a slur on doctrinal standards generally,—it is hard to see why he should write thus.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William
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
Not to have believed that, after all these years, would have been to deny all his usefulness in life, and to cast a slur on the House of God.
From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John
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)
