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

Hence a wise system of concessions allowed by the Church to the senses, always, however, under formalities which cast a slur on every act of the senses, and maintained the sham usurpation of the spirit.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

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)

But the decision of the Court cast a slur on his name, and on that of his second wife.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas