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

I now mention these things, not to cast a slur on San Martin, but for the opposite purpose of averting undue reproach, though my bitter enemy.

From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of

What if the story should prove to be, not mere idle gossip, but actual scandal—the sort of scandal which would cast a slur forever on the whole Grey family, herself included?

From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

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.