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
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
He was going to have made a remark that would have cast a slur on the character of his late partner, so he checked himself and sighed.
From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Yes, sir, you began by insinuating that she was as venal as yourself; for you are one that can be bought by the first-comer; and now you would cast a slur on her chastity.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
Somebody remembered thet Greaves had cast a slur on your good name, Ellen.
From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane
