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
My dear, you have put the matter in a new light," said the Rev. Joshua Twemlow; "I would be the last man in the world to cast a slur upon any brother clergyman.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
Hubert insulted me in his will, and cast a slur on my character by forbidding me to marry you.
From Red Money by Hume, Fergus
Everyone in the navy here would feel it cast a slur upon the service if, at a time like this, a naval officer were tried and shot for treachery.
From With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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
