cast a slur on

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

Yes, sir, you began by insinuating that she was as venal as yourself; for you are one that can be bought by the first-comer; and now you would cast a slur on her chastity.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various

However, I am not trying to cast a slur on the latter for that reason, for each language has a beauty and elegance for its natives which does not strike the foreigner.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

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)

Somebody remembered thet Greaves had cast a slur on your good name, Ellen.

From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane