cast a slur
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
M. de Villiers, in his account of this transaction to the French government, avails himself of these passages in the capitulation to cast a slur on the conduct of Washington.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Irving, Washington
“Do you intend to cast a slur upon her?”
From Hushed Up! A Mystery of London by Le Queux, William
It was of course not the purpose of Binet to cast a slur upon the good sense and judgment of teachers.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
Streckmann has cast a slur upon her conduct and old Bernd won't suffer that!
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II by Hauptmann, Gerhart
