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
Not to have believed that, after all these years, would have been to deny all his usefulness in life, and to cast a slur on the House of God.
From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John
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
I now mention these things, not to cast a slur on San Martin, but for the opposite purpose of averting undue reproach, though my bitter enemy.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of
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.
