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 wouldn't have done it had he not cast a slur on your fair name, mother.
From The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle by Stratemeyer, Edward
Great men who followed the profession of letters, having nothing to fear from me, belauded me, not so much on account of my merits as to cast a slur on those of their rivals.
From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen
When the Deacon rises, he goes around his house, hawking, spitting, slamming doors, tumbling down wood, just to cast a slur on the lazy habits of modern days.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.
M. de Villiers, in his account of this transaction to the French government, avails himself of these passages in the capitulation to cast a slur on the conduct of Washington.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Irving, Washington
