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
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
"I hope you don't mean to cast a slur upon your—."
From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, 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)
"Nay, it would ill become me to cast a slur upon a lady who is both my guest and the wife of my comrade-in-arms," said the Seneschal of Villefranche.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
