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
He challenged the most noted duelist of the southwest, because he dared to cast a slur upon Jackson's wife.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
Does the author wish to cast a slur on the Darwinian theory?
From Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists by Ashmun, Margaret
Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one?
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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
