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
I don't like to cast a slur on English cookery.
From The Evil Genius by Collins, Wilkie
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)
He cannot mean that παρακολουθεῖν, because the Evangelist uses it only once, is suspicious; for that would be to cast a slur on S. Luke i.
From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William
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
