cast a slur

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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

George soon learnt that he had been deceived, that people were scandalised at his appearing to cast a slur upon his mother, and that the opposition in the commons would move to include her name.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane

That he who held her so dear, who only asked to protect her from pain and ill, that he should be the one to cast a slur upon her!

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

But for practical needs we see that it suffices to cast a slur on facile popularity, and vindicate over and over again those who had been despised and rejected.

From Albert Durer by Moore, T. Sturge