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
When the Deacon rises, he goes around his house, hawking, spitting, slamming doors, tumbling down wood, just to cast a slur on the lazy habits of modern days.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.
I wouldn't have done it had he not cast a slur on your fair name, mother.
From The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle by Stratemeyer, Edward
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)
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
